Tobin's Palm

Characters

• Daniel Tobin — Irish immigrant: A superstitious Irish immigrant in New York, heartsick over his sweetheart Katie who vanished after arriving in America.
• John Malone — narrator: Tobin's level-headed Irish friend and the story's first-person narrator, who accompanies him through the night.
• Katie Mahorner — Tobin's sweetheart: Tobin's sweetheart from County Sligo, who vanished after emigrating from Ireland three months earlier.
• Friedenhausman — literary man: A genial, literary-minded New Yorker with a distinctively crooked nose whom Tobin and Malone encounter late at night.
• Madame Zozo — palmist: A Coney Island palmist billed as the Egyptian Palmist of the Nile, who reads Tobin's hand.