sentences:  This includes Faustus' relationship to Mephisto; the characters Faustus, Marguerite Ida, and Helena Annabel; and the various pairings of minor characters (Boy and Dog, Boy and Girl, Dog Mephisto and Viper, Country Woman Viper and MIHA, the Man from Overseas and Faustus, he and MIHA).The text does not allow for a stable diagramming or coherent identities.Like the speech-headings in Elizabethan and Jacobean texts, Stein describes her characters in a number of different ways, suggesting some degree of multiplicity in her conception of dramatic character (most explicitly present in the multiple characterization of "Marguerite Ida and Helena Annabel").