Jackie Paper-Male;The character appears as an adult in the main narrative of the play, but he also flashes back to when he was in his mid-to-late teens. The actor who portrays Jackie should be able to display both the jadedness of the adult and the youthful naïveté of the younger version of the character Paul-Male, Jackie’s traveling companion. Unscrupulous. Mae-A beautiful young woman that Jackie falls in love with in his youth. Appears only in his flashbacks. The character is in her mid-to-late teens, but should be played by an adult due to her interactions with Jackie.