Short Fiction · Character

Dolly Karger

A Princeton football star in love with a dazzling girl who is quietly remaking him into someone else.

supporting

Also known as Dolly

First appearance: magnetism

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A later romantic interest of Anson, representing a more superficial and fleeting connection.

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Dolly Karger is the golden boy of his class, beautiful and easy, until Vienna takes him up and begins editing him for a more sophisticated world. On a wicker bench one summer night he and Vienna announce their engagement and ask Jeff to envy them, but the conversation keeps circling back to whether he will play football again, and Dolly's discomfort suggests the answer is already being decided for him. His quiet insistence that he is not a child anymore, and his refusal to be bullied, is the first real thing he says in the story, and it costs him.

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Setup
Escalation
Breaking point
Aftermath
Closing

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