# Women — Character guide

> Key figures in Women by Zofia Nałkowska.

- [Martha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/martha.md): A woman caught between ecstatic new love and the certainty it will end, she dissects her own passion with the cold eye of a philosopher.
- [Witold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/witold.md): A sharp-eyed observer of the salon set, he watches men like Wiazewski theorize about women while their own desires quietly betray them.
- [Gina Wartoslawska](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/gina_wartoslawska.md): Once the prettiest artist in the room, she now wears a broken engagement on her face for everyone to read and pity.
- [Janusz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/janusz.md): A handsome rider who follows a woman into the woods to argue, he mistakes the heat of pursuit for the depth of feeling.
- [Janka Dernowicz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/janka_dernowicz.md): Named as the most liked among the women, she moves through the artists' circle with a quietness that makes her stand out.
- [Stephen Tworkowski](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/stephen_tworkowski.md): Stephen is the narrator's confidant and the salon's resident ironist, the man addressed as "Dear Stephen" who can pivot from mocking doctrinaire artists to confessing a love affair he knows has no morrow. He insists woma
- [Imszanski](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/imszanski.md): Imszanski moves through the salon with urbane ease, greeting acquaintances and seeking out a handsome Frenchwoman whose glance lights him up — then smoothly redirecting his attention to the narrator's table when he spots
- [Madame Wildenhoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/madame_wildenhoff.md): Madame Wildenhoff is the appointment the men at the table are waiting on, her name invoked alongside Owinski, his fiancée, and Czolhanski as the reason the evening hasn't properly begun. She never quite arrives in the sc
- [Roslawski](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/roslawski.md): Roslawski belongs to the extended cast of men and women whose lives brush against the narrator's orbit — named, noted, and woven into the texture of the novel's social world. He exists less as a scene-stealer than as par
- [Wiazewski](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/wiazewski.md): A character who appears in the narrative with some dialogue.
- [Owinski](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/owinski.md): A character mentioned in the context of social circles.
- [Ileska](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/ileska.md): A female character with pronoun references, likely a minor role.
- [Mary Wieloleska](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/mary_wieloleska.md): A character with a dual identity, formerly known as Mary.
- [Janina Dernowicz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/janina_dernowicz.md): A young woman with a few proper mentions, possibly a relative.
- [Genka](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/genka.md): A named character with minimal presence.

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