Ova

Nurse

The Nurse appears to be Ova's caretaker or attendant, with frequent interactions suggesting daily care or supervision.

Exodus

Exodus and Ova share a deep, possibly romantic bond, with high interaction frequency indicating emotional intimacy.

Giovanni Bapini

Giovanni Bapini and Ova are locked in a tense rivalry, possibly over status or affection, with frequent confrontations.

Miss Bunn

Miss Bunn and Ova appear to be close friends or confidantes, sharing secrets and support.

Raminetti

Ova and Raminetti are acquaintances, with limited but notable interactions in social settings.

Elena

Elena and Ova are friends, with Elena offering companionship and support to Ova.

Danriel Gabrunzio

Danriel Gabrunzio and Ova are casual acquaintances, interacting infrequently but cordially.

Jehovah

Jehovah and Ova have a tense, possibly manipulative dynamic, with Jehovah exerting control or obsession.

July in Vallombrosa

The daughter of the old lady, who spends her life chasing moments and tending to her mother's illness, losing her own desires in the process.

To You

Addressed as 'you'—a hybrid-negro figure, incognito, alien in the city.

The Black Virginity

The speaker reflects on her own bewilderment and dislocation, contrasting her experience with the regimented lives of the baby priests.

II

The speaker's voice suggests Ova's internal struggle with identity and bodily existence.

V

The speaker, undecided and isolated in the midnight street.

XVII

Likely speaker; disoriented and introspective, counting fringe and sensing spatial distortion.

Der Blinde Junge

Implied observer or embodiment of the blind youth's experience, reflecting themes of alienation and sensory void.

Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose

Ova is the central child figure, experiencing maternal hostility, religious confusion, and the oppressive atmosphere of Kilburn. She is introspective and sensitive, craving affection and understanding.

Mongrel Rose

Born to Exodus and Ada, Ova experiences a loveless, oppressive childhood in Kilburn, marked by her mother's resentment and her own imaginative escapes.

Ada Gives Birth to Ova

The newborn, a 'breathing baby mystero-chemico Nemesis,' inheriting a mongrel heart and a Jewish brain, fed on Benger's food for infants.

II

Exodus's child, propped on a chair and told to hush.

Ova Begins to Take Notice

The infant protagonist, beginning to take notice of her surroundings and grappling with self-identification.

Psychic Larva

The child of Exodus, subjected to her mother's psychic larva and sub-carnal anger, her intuition stamped by parental disequilibrium.

Christ's Regrettable Reticence

Ova contemplates the hidden nature of Jesus, wishing he would come out into the open, and is influenced by a housemaid's story about absolution.

Enter Colossus

Mentioned in the final line as the subject of Christian introspection, juxtaposed with Colossus's monstrous behavior.

Ova. Among. The. Neighbours.

Central consciousness whose subjective experience is shaped by and contrasted with the collective norms of her English neighbours.

Ova Has Governesses

Ova suffers from the anaemia of monotonous hours and the oppressive care of her governesses.

Jews and Ragamuffins of Kilburn

Ova experiences fear and horror during her walk in Kilburn, observing the common children and the trapped girl.

The Surprise

Ova is the child protagonist who is falsely accused of peeping into the surprise basket, called a liar, and expelled from the house.

Illumination

Experiences a mystical illumination in the garden, losing bodily consciousness and entering a state of bliss.

Contraction

The contracting consciousness experiencing the defilement of the garden and the smashed egg.

The Gift

Ova asks her father for a sovereign to buy a 'circus universe,' experiencing a moment of exalted beauty and destiny before being disillusioned.

Ova Accepts the Popular Estimate of Humanity

Accepts Christ as a sacrificial prototype and the disturbing physical sensations of her flesh as divine destinies, under maternal coercion.

Religious Instruction

X Ova's consciousness is described as impulsive to commit to justice and to walk its innate straight way out of circumstance; she is a child of Exodus who often 'sets out to seek her fortune' and runs away, only to be delivered back by the streets of Kilburn.