Joe Wold Character Analysis

Like Perovsky, Joe Wold is a saloonkeeper and real estate proprietor in Braddock. He is of Jewish-Slovak heritage and hails from the northeastern Sarisa region of Slovakia. Wold owns the most popular saloon in the First Ward. Kracha and other steelworkers frequently make use of Wold’s alcohol to escape, however temporality, their hard, monotonous existence laboring in the mills. The saloon also functions as a social club and meeting place for men in the neighborhood. Wold shares Perovsky’s political sympathies and maintains well-known connections both to the steel company, as well as to its influencers in the local Republican Party.