White Fang
The wolf-dog protagonist. He starts as a wild cub, gets pulled into human society, is brutalized into a fighter, and is eventually rehabilitated. His arc carries the novel's argument about environment and character.
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Weedon Scott
The gold-mining engineer who rescues White Fang from Beauty Smith. He is patient, consistent, and earns White Fang's loyalty through months of careful work. He represents what benevolent power looks like.
Beauty Smith
The novel's main human villain. He buys White Fang from Grey Beaver and turns him into a fighting dog. London shows him as a product of his own mistreatment, which explains but does not excuse his cruelty.
Grey Beaver
A Native American man who is White Fang's first owner. He is neither cruel nor kind in the way Scott is. He treats White Fang as property and eventually sells him when debt and alcohol make him desperate.
Kiche
White Fang's mother, a half-dog who was once Grey Beaver's animal. She protects White Fang through his earliest weeks and shapes his first understanding of the world. She disappears from the story once White Fang enters camp life.
Bill and Henry
The two men in the novel's opening section who are hunted by the wolf pack. Bill dies. Henry survives. Their story establishes the Yukon's danger and sets the world White Fang is born into.
Mit-sah
Grey Beaver's son, who uses White Fang as a lead sled dog. He treats White Fang with more care than most, but the relationship is still one of use rather than affection.
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