George Finch, originally from East Gilead, Idaho, title character and resident of a small bachelor apartment on top of the Sheridan Apartment House near Washington Square in The Small Bachelor. Slim and slight, with pleasant, undistinguished face, brown eyes, and chestnut hair. The worst painter in New York, heir to the fortune of his late uncle Thomas of Finch, Finch, Finch, Butterfield & Finch, the Corporation Law firm. In love with Molly Waddington.

• The Small Bachelor