’s third husband, whom she calls “John,” as she did with all of her other husbands and lovers. The family, in turn, calls him “The John,” “Uncle John,” or “Sissy’s John.” With Steve, she raises a daughter, , and settles into domestic life. Steve works at a publishing house that prints pulp magazines, which likes to read. After confirming that Sissy is divorced from her second husband, Steve remarries Sissy in a Methodist church. It is heavily implied in Chapter 47 that Steve is the father of , or “Little Sissy.” He and Sissy also have a biological son together, . During the First World War, Steve works as the foreman at a munitions factory on Morgan Avenue in Brooklyn.