 It also introduces characters of great depth, like Soifer, the old German Jew who "walks on tiptoe" to save shoe leather; he is Golder's only connection with the old world from which he himself came.His wife, Gloria, (Havke is her Yiddish name) is as beautiful, cold and hard as the jewels she so treasures.But it is Joyce, Golder's 18-year-old daughter, who is central to the story.