The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King’s Epic Fantasy (47 page)

D
EAN
, R
EGINALD
(3)

Eddie Dean's uncle. He painted the George Washington Bridge.

D
EAN
, S
ELINA
[G
LORIA
] (2, 3)

Eddie Dean's older sister. A drunk driver killed her when Eddie was two and she was six.

D
EAN
, S
USANNAH
(2, 3, 4, 4.5, 5, 6, 7)

Susannah Dean is the union of Odetta Holmes and Detta Walker, created by Roland using the final doorway on the beach. She adopts the middle name of both of her previous personalities. There may be even more unnamed personalities—formed and half-formed—lurking beneath the surface. She is twenty-six years old and heart-stoppingly beautiful, with full lips, wide eyes and high cheekbones, when Roland takes her from 1964. She and Eddie Dean fall in love and treat Jake like an adopted son.

She benefits from aspects of Odetta and Detta. She draws on Odetta for her humanity and social skills, but it is Detta who reasserts herself most often, especially when Susannah is under pressure. She remembers enjoying some of the things she did in New York as Detta. She relies on Detta to calm her nerves and steady her hands, or when she has to endure something terrible, like when she's raped by the demon in the Speaking Ring. When Detta is in control, Susannah looks different. Susannah isn't always aware that Detta has come forward, except in retrospect.

She has a casual way of speaking, calling her friends “sugar” or “sug.” She is often the voice of calm reason to counter Eddie's brashness. Susannah loves Eddie because he makes her feel whole. She proudly wears the wooden ring he carved on a leather thong around her neck. It's too big for her hand, but she won't let him make her a new one. Eddie fills the hole in her heart that she believes all people are born with and exist with until they find their true love.

Her feelings for Roland are more ambivalent. Her love for him is a
mixture of fear, admiration and pity. Detta hates him for forcing her into this strange land and for his rise to ascendancy in Susannah's heart and mind. Susannah recognizes him as a hero, admiring his strength and indefatigable single-mindedness, but despises his ruthlessness.

She excels as a gunslinger, never lacks for courage and takes quickly to new weapons, like the Orizas she wields against the Wolves and in Algul Siento. They give her an elemental satisfaction. After she kills everyone in the Fedic Dogan, she's eager for more, believing that becoming a killing machine is what she was made for.

She likes to play parts and is aware that an understanding of her psychosis might have illuminated her childhood joy at pretending to be someone else. Exposure to Mid-World enhances her playacting to the level where she can imagine things and make them real, like the mental Dogan she creates to control her pregnancy.

Though Susannah's personality is strong, she is no match for Mia, who invades her the same way Roland did in Macy's. Perhaps because she is used to compartmentalizing other personalities, she doesn't realize Mia is there until the todash trip where the others go into the vacant lot and she remains on the street. So long as Mia sits back, Susannah can remain in control, but when Mia steps forward, she is helpless. Even Detta is no match for the former demon's single-minded imperative. When Mia is driving their body, it has legs and she's an inch taller than Eddie. Under different circumstances, she and Mia might have been friends, and they develop some mutual respect during their one day in full communication with each other.

Though Susannah is pregnant, she never has any maternal feelings toward Mordred before he's born or after. She wanted to bear Eddie's child, but not this one. After Eddie dies, Susannah agrees to go on with Roland and Jake. She claims it's because Eddie wanted her to, but part of her wants to see the Tower, too, though she never gets to do so.

She starts dreaming of Eddie after the encounter with Dandelo and figures out what
ka
wants her to do. The New York on which the doorway Patrick draws for her opens is not the same one she came from, but she can be happy there with Eddie Toren, who loves her, and his younger brother, Jake.

D
EEPNEAU
, A
ARON
(3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

A retired lawyer who was diagnosed with cancer in 1975. His younger sister and two younger brothers are still lawyers with a family firm called simply Deepneau. He explained the riddle of Samson to Jake. He's Calvin Tower's only friend. He and Tower rescue Father Callahan from the Hitler Brothers.
Roland thinks he has a true face. He raised Nancy Deepneau—who called him Airy as a child—after her parents died young. He is one of the Founding Fathers of Tet Corporation and died in 1992 after his cancer came back. He's in his seventies in 1977, tall, skinny and wears steel-rimmed glasses. He has only a few wisps of fine hair on his head.

D
EEPNEAU
, E
D
(7)

A cousin several times removed of Marian Carver's father. He was a bookkeeper from Bangor who died in 1947. The Calvins think Stephen King used him as a subliminal message to Roland to be on the lookout for Aaron Deepneau.

Crossover to Other Works:
Ed Deepneau is the villain in
Insomnia
, tricked into working on behalf of the Crimson King.

D
EEPNEAU
, N
ANCY
R
EBECCA
(7)

Aaron Deepneau's older brother's granddaughter. Her parents and grandfather died young, so Aaron mostly raised her. In 1999, she works for Tet Corporation.

D
ELEVAN
, C
ARL
(2)

One of the two police officers Roland approaches after being unable to purchase bullets at Clements Guns and Sporting Goods. Overweight and out of shape. Roland strips him of his gun and knocks him unconscious. He responds to the shots-fired call at Katz's Drug Store and opens fire with a shotgun, endangering bystanders. Roland knocked him out a second time, which may have accounted for his amnesia when testifying about that day's events. Died of a heart attack while watching
The Terminator
nine years later.

D
ELGADO
, L
UPE
(5)

A thirty-two-year-old alcoholic who started working at Home in 1974 and was sober since 1970. He worked days as part of the maintenance crew at the Plaza Hotel and nights at the shelter. He helped craft Home's “wet” policy. Father Callahan fell in love with him, though there was never anything physical between them. Lupe fell victim to a Type Three vampire, who gave him AIDS. He came down with Kaposi's sarcoma in mid-1976 and died a few weeks later. Because of him, Father Callahan started killing vampires.

D
ENBY
, T
OM
(3)

The name Jack Chambers gives to a cop in Times Square while being truant from school. He uses the name of a nearby establishment, Denby's Discount Drug.

D
ORFMAN
, S
TAN
(3)

One of Jake Chambers's classmates. Jack Mort has a client named Dorfman.

D
ORNING
, J
ANE
(2)

Flight attendant on Delta 901 between Nassau, Bahamas, and JFK. She is the first to believe that there's something suspicious about Eddie.

D
OUGLAS
, S
USY
(2)

Senior flight attendant on Delta 901 between Nassau, Bahamas, and JFK.

D
RABNIK
, C
SABA
(4, 5)

One of Henry Dean's friends, known around the neighborhood as the Mad Fuckin Hungarian. Eddie hears his voice in the Doorway Cave.

D
RETTO
, C
ARLOCIMI
“C
IMI
” (2, 5)

One of Enrico Balazar's bodyguards. He weighs 250 pounds and has worked for “Da Boss” for decades. He hopes to retire to a farm in northern New Jersey. Alas, his retirement comes in the form of a bullet from Roland's gun.

E
ARNSHAW
, R
ICHARD
“D
INKY
” (7)

A Breaker at Algul Siento. He was originally enlisted by Mr. Sharpton to work for Trans Corp, a subsidiary of North Central Positronics. He is precognitive, and his special abilities allow him to unlock doors and modify the telemetry equipment in Damli House to disguise their comings and goings and any unauthorized use of psychic power. He has a terrible temper and a habit of going off on foul-mouthed tirades if someone pushes his buttons. Unlike most Breakers, though, he isn't totally self-absorbed. He befriends Sheemie Ruiz after hearing him crying at night. After the battle of Algul Siento, he joins Ted and the others on the train to Fedic. They head to the Callas, planning to get back home via the Doorway Cave.

Crossovers to Other Works:
Dinky Earnshaw first appeared in the story “Everything's Eventual” as a high-school dropout who is given a job as an e-mail assassin for Trans Corp. He had an unpleasant encounter with Henry Dean's friend Skipper Brannigan. The special symbol he uses to turn his power on Mr. Sharpton is the word “Excalibur,” the name of Arthur Eld's sword, from which Roland's guns are made.

E
STEVEZ
, J
ULIO
(2)

The ambulance driver who takes Odetta to the hospital after her accident.

E
VANS
, B
ERYL
(3, 4, 5, 6)

Author of
Charlie the Choo-Choo
in one version of reality.

F
EENY
, A
NDREW
(2, 3, 6, 7)

Odetta Holmes's driver. He started working for Odetta's father when she was fourteen and knows about her blackouts and disappearances but doesn't know the real reason for them. He calls John F. Kennedy the last gunslinger.

F
LAHERTY
, C
ONOR
(7)

The leader and only human among the posse that chases Jake beneath the Dixie Pig. Originally from Boston, he has worked for the Crimson King for twenty years in many versions of New York. His fear of dragons is expressed by the mind-trap. He's a good shot but no match on the draw for Roland, even after he tries to distract him by insulting his mother. Roland puts two bullets in his head.

F
RAMINGHAM
, M
R
. (2)

Jack Mort's boss. Mort bought an expensive silver Dunhill lighter so he could light the man's cigarettes.

F
RANKS
, J
OANNE
(3)

Secretary at the Piper School.

F
REDERICKS
, T
OMMY
(4, 5)

One of Henry Dean's friends. He gets so excited watching the street stickball games that he makes faces, so the kids call him Halloween Tommy.

G
ALE
, D
OROTHY
(2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

A character from
The Wizard of Oz
. The
ka-tet
tells Roland her story before they enter the Green Palace outside Topeka.

G
ARFIELD
, B
OBBY
(6, 7)

Ted Brautigan's young friend after he escapes from Algul Siento. Ted mistakes Jake for him at first. Pimli Prentiss threatened to harm Bobby if Ted refused to cooperate after he was captured and returned.

Crossover to Other Works:
Bobby was the protagonist of the novella “Low Men in Yellow Coats” from
Hearts in Atlantis
.

G
ARTON
, W
ILLIAM
(5)

The Hitler brother Father Callahan thinks of as Lenny because he's so short, no more than five foot two. He talks nonstop, isn't very smart and has a bad complexion. Shot to death on Coney Island.

G
ERBER
, C
AROL
(7)

Bobby Garfield's childhood friend. Pimli Prentiss threatens to harm her if Ted Brautigan refuses to cooperate.

Crossover to Other Works:
Carol's story is told in
Hearts in Atlantis
.

G
OLDOVER
, S
YLVIA
(6)

Henry Dean's girlfriend during the winter of 1984–85. She was “Skank El Supremo” according to Eddie, with smelly armpits, dragon breath and Mick Jagger lips. The relationship ended when she stole ninety dollars from Henry's wallet and disappeared.

G
RAHAM
, T
OMMY
(5)

Owner of Tom and Gerry's Artistic Deli until it went out of business.

G
RANT
, D
ONALD
M. (3)

A publisher of fine editions mentioned by Calvin Tower. Also publisher of the first editions of the Dark Tower novels.

G
UTTENBERG
, M
ITCH
(6)

A senior partner at Guttenberg, Furth and Patel, the accounting firm where Trudy Damascus works.

H
ALVORSEN
, J
IMMY
(2)

House detective at Macy's.

H
ANSON
, L
UCAS
(5)

One of Jake Chambers's classmates at the Piper School. Lucas always tried to trip Jake when he was going up the aisle.

H
ARLEY
, M
R
. (3)

Headmaster at the Piper School. He also teaches Spoken Arts.

H
ARRIGAN
, R
EVEREND
E
ARL
(6, 7)

Henchick of the Manni's twin in Manhattan. A tall, white-bearded man. A street preacher from the Church of the Holy God-Bomb who frequents the streets near 2 Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza. He often receives tickets from the cops for setting up easels, taking collection and preaching from a soapbox on the sidewalk. Susannah communicates with him mentally after she arrives from the Doorway Cave, and he relays the message to Jake and Father Callahan and intercedes when Jake gets in trouble with a taxi driver. He has a Southern accent that reminds Callahan of Foghorn Leghorn. Moses Carver is among his friends.