Trust
TrustHernán Díaz
Characters in Trust
6 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Benjamin Rask
A Wall Street financier whose rise and fortune drive the novel-within-a-novel Bonds.
Andrew Bevel
A powerful American financier who believes Bonds is based on his life and sets out to rebut it.
Supporting characters
Helen Rask
Benjamin's wife in Bonds, an aristocrat's daughter who spends her money supporting musical artists.
Mildred Bevel
Andrew Bevel's wife, whose sharp financial mind emerges through her own account of events.
Ida Partenza
A young writer hired as Andrew Bevel's ghostwriter who later becomes a novelist and narrates her own memoir.
Harold Vanner
The novelist credited with writing Bonds, the 1937 book the other sections of Trust respond to.