The Boy is described in the play's list of characters as handsome and about fifteen years old, with a "martyr-like shyness." He appears at the church as an innocent, asking the Minister to baptize him, but then admits to having sinned. The Homosexual is sexually interested in the Boy, and he and the Minister struggle for the Boy's attentions. The Boy begins the play with a timid manner, but by the play's end he is convinced that he is "the Son of Man" and "the Christ."
The Homosexual is in his forties and (according to the list of characters) "elegant" but gaining a bit of a belly and "conscious of it." He seems to delight in taunting the Minister with lewd suggestions and dismisses everyone in the play except the.....
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