La segunda casaca - Characters

 

SPOILERS!!!

These are the characters in the book for further reference:

REGULAR CHARACTERS

• Salvador Monsalud (21) is one of the main characters. At the beginning of the series Salvador  joined the French army because he was in a desperate situation and didn't even have money for food. As a consequence he was considered a traitor.  His mother livesd in a village in Burgos and in this book she was in the Inquisition's prison for his connection to Salvador. Salvador was in love with Jenara, but when in the first book she discovered that he wason the French side, she turned to her other suitor, Carlos Navarro. Salvador is actually the son of Fernando Navarro, Carlos's father, who took advantage of his mother and never bothered to worry about the boy who he had fathered. In the first book Salvador became Fernando's jailer when he was apprehended by the French troops, and when a mob was about to torture Fernando to death, Salvador gave him a gun so that he could die by his own hand.  Then Carlos challenged Salvador, and the former injured Carlos. In this book he returns to Madrid and is on the side of the liberals. 
• Juan Bragas is Salvador's friend and one of the main characters. He describes how he has managed to get a good position thanks to his contacts and his sly ways. He is nothing but an opportunist. He supported the abolutist regime, but when the liberals won the revolution, he turned a liberal. 
• Jenara is the woman Salvador loved . Jenara is now married to Carlos, but she doesn't love him. When Salvador brings her grandfather home after finding him injured, Carlos locks him in a room, but Jenara helps him escape.  
• Carlos Navarro is Jenara's wife. He knows that she doesn't love him, and he becomes suspicious of her.
• Miguel de Baraona is Jenara's grandfather, and he has always disapproved of Salvador. In this book he dies after he is attacked by a mob of liberals. 
• Fermina Monsalud is Salvador's mother. She gave her heart to the wrong man (Fernando) and got pregnant. So she has raised Salvador on her own. She was in prison for her connection to Salvador, but Pipaón asks the minister to release her. 
• Fernando Navarro alias Garrote was  Carlos and Salvador's father, but Salvador has never known he is his father. Fernando was apprehended by the French army when he and a priest killed a French soldier. Fernando killed himself with a gun Salvador provided to escape the horrible way that Don Aparicio died.
• Presentación is Doña María's daughter. In the previous book Presentación was in love with Gasparito Grijalva and asked Bragas for help as her beloved was in prison. When Bragas proved to be a traitor as he took the lands of the Misses Porrua, Presentación took her revenge and humiliated him before the king.

CHARACTERS IN THIS NOVEL

• Juan Esteban Lozano de Torres is a real character. He was a minister, but was banished to Galicia in favour of Buenaventura.
• Buenaventura is a friend of Pipaon's and he became a minister before the uprising.
• Farrancho is the servant and valet of Pipaón.
• Doña Fé is a maid working for Pipaón. He discovered that Doña Fé betrayed him by letting Salvador into the house.
• Paquita is Jenara's maid.
• Mano de Montera is a smuggler who now works in the prison of the Inquisition. 
• Oricain is Carlos's friend.
• Zugarramundi is Carlos's friend.