# He Who Gets Slapped — Character guide

> Key figures in He Who Gets Slapped by Leonid Andreyev.

- [Consuelo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_who_gets_slapped_se/characters/consuelo.md): A bareback rider whose beauty and laughter are bought and sold by the men around her, while she asks only where Bezano has gone.
- [Zinida](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_who_gets_slapped_se/characters/zinida.md): The lion tamer who reads everyone's chains, including her own, and tells the clown the truth he refuses to hear about Consuelo.
- [Bezano](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_who_gets_slapped_se/characters/bezano.md): The rider Consuelo calls for the moment she enters, whose absence from the intermission chatter makes his presence felt all the more.
- [Jackson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_who_gets_slapped_se/characters/jackson.md): Jackson leads the clowns into the ring and holds court backstage, greeting He's record fifty-two slaps with a toast and a warning: the crowd wants slaps, not puzzles, and Providence should be left in peace. He is generou
- [Baron Regnard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/he_who_gets_slapped_se/characters/baron_regnard.md): Baron Regnard stands in evening dress with a rose in his buttonhole, gazing at Consuelo and calling her father a charlatan and a beggar even as he begs to kiss her hand. He cannot marry her, he insists, yet he cannot sto

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