ANNA IN THE TROPICS

CHARACTERS

SANTIAGO

Owner of a cigar factory, late fifties

CHECHE

His half-brother; half-Cuban, half-American, early forties

OFELIA

Santiago's wife, fifties

MARELA

Ofelia and Santiago's daughter, twenty-two

CONCHITA

Her sister, thirty-two

PALOMO

Her husband, forty-one

JUAN JULIAN

The lector, thirty-eight

ELIADES

Local gamester, runs cockfights, forties