# Charley Moore — Short Fiction character guide

> Charley Moore in Short Fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Charley, Charles, Charles Impatiently

**First appearance:** 0206-i

## Snapshot

A stock-exchange friend of Anson Hunter, newly rich and suddenly wistful for the married life he once mocked, who watches his friend's family scandal with growing unease.

## Who they are

Charley Moore moves through the same prosperous set as Anson Hunter, a man with a seat on the Exchange and twenty-five thousand a year who once swore he'd never marry. Now, as his friends disappear behind domestic doors at night, he wonders whether he should have married Dolly after all, learning the rarity of true emotion in a single life. His quiet disillusionment sharpens the contrast with Anson's imperious meddling in the Edna affair, making him a barometer of what Anson refuses to feel.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/chapters/i)

Horace's cousin and a senior at Sheffield, who arranges for Marcia to visit Horace as a prank.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/chapters/iii)

A fellow worker who has been at Macy's for four years, earning sixty dollars a month, and embodies the stagnation Dalyrimple fears.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/chapters/iv)

Dalyrimple observes him at lunch, noting his faint aura of evil and inability to focus, yet sees him as belonging to the righteous side.

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