Evelyn (Eve)
Evelyn (Eve) is the main character of the novel; moreover, he is a complex and versatile person, as he cannot decide what he wants from his life. At first, one can see that he lives only for his lust and is extremely a selfish person. The primary negative trait of the character is that he doesn’t appreciate anything what he has; he has no values at all and no respect for others. In the end of the novel he changes his gender, but doesn’t find himself even in a woman’s body.
Baroslav
Baroslav is a friend of Evelyn. He is a Czech neighbor, an alchemist – but it’s all information about his life, because it was comparatively short. His role in the novel isn’t long because he was killed by a group of young people, shortly after acquaintance with the main character of this novel.
Leilah (Lilith)
A girlfriend of the main character, she is an exotic young African-American night club dancer. She was in sexual relationship with the Evelyn, and got pregnant and later was abandoned by him. Her character shows us how every of us can change and how life continues despite even momentous problems.
Tristessa
She is an object of Evelyn’s lust, a fictional American silent movie star: an embodiment of beauty, sorrow, and loneliness, who Zero hates obsessively.
Zero
He is a cruel male cult leader with only one eye and one leg. Zero hates Tristessa because she made him infertile. He is hideous in both appearance and inner world.
Mother
Mother is the center of feminism, and controls many women followers because she wants to change them, to make them perfect and capable of living without men. Mother also has the power to change men into women, and uses this power on Evelyn to transform him into a woman.
