# The Mark of Zorro — Character guide

> Key figures in The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley.

- [Señor Zorro](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mark_of_zorro_se/characters/zorro.md): To the soldiers he is a taunting ghost who robs the rich and humiliates the proud; to the oppressed he is the only justice that answers. He fights with a blade in one hand and a pistol in the other, insisting on fairness
- [Don Diego Vega](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mark_of_zorro_se/characters/don_diego_vega.md): Don Diego drifts through drawing rooms complaining of turbulent times and aching heads, courting Lolita with such listless courtesy that she can barely tolerate him. Yet his seeming apathy shields a secret life, and ever
- [Sergeant Pedro Gonzales](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mark_of_zorro_se/characters/sergeant_pedro_gonzales.md): Gonzales holds court in the tavern, roaring about the reward and the cowardice of a highwayman who conveniently robs everywhere the sergeant is not. His vanity is matched only by his appetite for wine, and his tirades su
- [Don Carlos Pulido](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mark_of_zorro_se/characters/don_carlos_pulido.md): Don Carlos is out of favor with the governor, and every kindness shown to his household is quietly punished by those in power. He hopes a marriage between Lolita and Don Diego will restore the Pulido name, even as he sen
- [Captain Ramón](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mark_of_zorro_se/characters/captain_ramon.md): Captain Ramón boasts that he would make short work of the highwayman, yet he is always conveniently absent when Zorro strikes. His wounded shoulder and wounded pride drive him to bully the Pulidos and force himself on Lo
- [Señorita Lolita Pulido](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mark_of_zorro_se/characters/lolita_pulido.md): Lolita endures Don Diego's tepid courtship and the town's pity with equal grace, refusing to be bartered for the sake of her father's name. When Zorro steals a kiss from her palm in the moonlight, she is caught between t
- [Fray Felipe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mark_of_zorro_se/characters/fray_felipe.md): Fray Felipe is a Franciscan whose hacienda becomes a quiet waystation for the persecuted, and whose tongue refuses to soften for any soldier. He rails against the politicians and men who rob honest colonists of their jus
- [Doña Catalina Pulido](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mark_of_zorro_se/characters/dona_catalina_pulido.md): Doña Catalina belongs to the proud but declining Pulido household, whose loyalty to the old order has left them poor and out of favor with the new authorities. She watches her daughter's prospects and her husband's digni
- [Don Alejandro Vega](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mark_of_zorro_se/characters/don_alejandro_vega.md): Wealthy father of Don Diego Vega who owns a hacienda.
- [Bernardo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mark_of_zorro_se/characters/bernardo.md): Loyal mute servant of Don Diego who assists Zorro's secret activities.
- [The Pulidos](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mark_of_zorro_se/characters/the_pulidos.md): The noble but persecuted Pulido family, including Don Carlos and his household.

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