# Dolly Karger — Short Fiction character guide

> Dolly Karger in Short Fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dolly

**First appearance:** 0200-magnetism

## Snapshot

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

## Who they are

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.

## In the story

### [The Rich Boy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/chapters/the-rich-boy)

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

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/chapters/v)

A dark-haired, vivacious debutante who falls deeply for Anson. She pursues him relentlessly, but her emotional instability and Anson's detachment lead to a painful rejection.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/chapters/vii)

Mentioned as someone Anson used to visit with Teak Warden during their affair, now part of a broken intimacy.

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