# The Arrow of Gold — Character guide

> Key figures in The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad.

- [Doña Rita](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/rita_de_lastaola.md): Doña Rita moves through Paris as the rumored heiress of the Allègre collection, her beauty and composure making her the still center of a room full of schemers. Men like Azzolati and Blunt orbit her, wounded by her casua
- [George](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/george.md): George arrives in Marseille with a small boat, a dangerous cargo, and a heart already mortgaged to Doña Rita, whom he serves without quite understanding what she wants from him. He moves between the loyal world of Domini
- [Captain Blunt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/captain_blunt.md): Blunt moves through Rita's circle with the ease of a man who has always belonged there, flashing his teeth at Mills, dissecting Rita's conduct, and hinting at knowledge he never quite produces. His rivalry with George is
- [Mills](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/mills.md): Mills is the friend George leans on and the confidant Blunt needles, a still presence in rooms full of vanity and scheming. His calm is not passivity; he notices everything, from Blunt's vulgarity to Rita's silences, and
- [Dominic](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/dominic.md): Dominic works the coast with the ease of a man who has outlived fear, ferrying George and his cargo past patrols and into the arms of Madame Léonore's café. His talk of women and kisses is wry and unhurried, and his comp
- [Therese](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/therese.md): Therese attends Rita with a devotion that shades into judgment, her piety a constant counterpoint to the worldly currents around her mistress. She is present at the edges of key scenes, observing, disapproving, and occas
- [Mr. Blunt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/mr_blunt.md): Mr. Blunt belongs to the shadowy world of Legitimist intrigue and international finance, a man whose ragged jacket and white tie at odd hours hint at sleepless nights and hidden purposes. His incisive, deliberate manner 
- [Mrs. Blunt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/mrs_blunt.md): Madame Blunt moves through the highest social and commercial spheres — even curio-dealers like Bing feel her displeasure — and her name is invoked as a kind of social currency. Her quarrel with Bing over the Allègre coll
- [Henry Allègre](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/henry_%20allegre.md): Henry Allègre was a great connoisseur and collector whose death flung an enormous fortune at Doña Rita with what seemed like brutal caprice, as if in defiance of ordinary human feeling. His legacy — the Allègre collectio
- [José Ortega](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/jose_ortega.md): Señor Ortega moves through the Carlist underground with the zeal of a man who has staked everything on a cause and a woman, and his presence in the house throws Doña Rita and the narrator into sudden, breathless alarm. H
- [Baron H.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/baron_h.md): A baron mentioned in the narrative, possibly a political figure.
- [Marquis de Villarel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/marquis_de_villarel.md): A nobleman, likely related to Don Rafael, part of the political backdrop.
- [Rose](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/rose.md): A woman mentioned in the narrative, possibly connected to Blunt.
- [Prax](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/prax.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or local.
- [Young Ulysses](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/young_ulysses.md): A minor character, possibly a nickname or allusion.
- [Madame Léonore](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_arrow_of_gold_se/characters/madame_leonore.md): An older woman, possibly a relative or guardian of Rita.

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