# Man and Superman — Character guide

> Key figures in Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw.

- [Jack Tanner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/jack_tanner.md): Tanner is a wealthy socialist firebrand and newly appointed guardian to Ann Whitefield, a role he accepted with the confidence of a man who thinks he sees every trap. He lectures Octavius on Maeterlinck's bees, insisting
- [Ann Whitefield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/ann_whitefield.md): Ann is the orphaned center of the Whitefield household, newly under the guardianship of Ramsden and Tanner, and universally praised for her devotion to duty. When Octavius proposes, she deflects him with tears and talk o
- [Roebuck Ramsden](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/roebuck_ramsden.md): Ramsden is a respectable man of letters and old friend of the late Mr. Whitefield, chosen as Ann's guardian precisely because he represents everything solid and conventional. He grieves sincerely with Octavius and gently
- [Octavius Robinson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/octavius_robinson.md): Octavius — Tavy to his friends — is a generous, honorable young man whose late patron treated him like a son and whose sister Violet is his closest family. He confesses to Tanner that he proposed to Ann the night before 
- [Violet Robinson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/violet_robinson.md): Violet moves through the Whitefield circle with the composure of a woman who has already made her decisive choice and is waiting for the rest of society to catch up. Her secret marriage to Hector Malone puts her at odds 
- [Hector Malone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/hector_malone.md): Hector is young, impulsive, and caught between two worlds: the American wealth his father controls and the English society he has married into without permission. His secret marriage to Violet makes him a walking scandal
- [Mendoza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/mendoza.md): Mendoza presides over a band of anarchists and social-democrats who spend three evenings debating courage instead of robbing motorcars, and he keeps the meeting in order with crushing magnanimity and a magnificent fling 
- [Don Juan Tenorio](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/don_juan_tenorio.md): In the dream sequence, Don Juan has traded seduction for speculation, debating the Devil about heaven, hell, and whether man's purpose is to pursue pleasure or to will his own improvement. He is the play's great contrari
- [Doña Ana de Ulloa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/do%C3%B1a_ana_de_ulloa.md): Doña Ana arrives in hell with the fury of a woman who has been wronged and the stubbornness of one who refuses to be forgotten, calling Don Juan infamous and wretch in the same breath. Her presence forces the abstract de
- [The Statue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/the_statue.md): The Statue is the outraged patriarch of the old order, a father whose honor has been violated and who pursues Don Juan beyond the grave with the implacable courtesy of a Spanish grandee. He represents the claims of famil
- [The Devil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/the_devil.md): The Devil presides over a Hell that is frankly a place of enjoyment, where the damned pursue their pleasures without the hypocrisies of the surface world, and he receives Don Juan with the warmth of a host who expects to
- [Enry Straker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/enry_straker.md): Straker is the new man in the most literal sense: a working-class Londoner who understands the internal combustion engine better than any gentleman in the play understands anything, and who is not remotely impressed by t
- [Rhoda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/rhoda.md): Ann's younger sister, often present but quiet.
- [Louisa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/louisa.md): Mendoza's beloved who left him, inspiring his poetic melancholy.
- [The Superman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/man_and_superman_se/characters/the_superman.md): The idealized future human discussed in the Revolutionist's Handbook.

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