The Fixer | Characters
"Yakov Shepsovitch Bok, the chief character, is a fixer, or handyman, conscious of his ignorance as well as his poverty but longing to better himself. He has read a little Spinoza, and what he has learned has whetted his appetite for more. Feeling trapped in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, and against the advice of his kindly father-in-law Shmuel, he decides to leave the shtetl and head for the big city of Kiev, despite its reputation for conservatism and anti-Semitism. Like other Malamud protagonists, he has a dry skepticism and apparently realistic attitude that belies an inherent...
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