The Post-Office Girl
The Post-Office GirlStefan Zweig
Characters in The Post-Office Girl
5 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Christine Hoflehner
A young postal clerk in provincial Austria, briefly lifted into wealth by an aunt's invitation and then dropped back.
Supporting characters
Christine's mother
Christine's aunt
Christine's uncle
Ferdinand (The Post-Office Girl)
A wounded war veteran and frustrated architect whom Christine meets after her return from Switzerland; their shared disillusionment drives the novel's second half.