Short Fiction · Character
Ellen Baker
A rose-skinned, perceptive young woman whose quiet composure and withheld attention make her the still center of a restless social world.
supporting
Also known as Ellen, Miss Ellen
First appearance: magnetism
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A young woman from the narrator's hometown who is under the influence of a mysterious and possibly dangerous stranger.
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Ellen Baker returns home flushed with cold and surrounded by admiring boys, yet she laughs without really listening, waiting for a message that never comes. Her exquisite carnation coloring and her cool refusal to be…
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- Other
Character groups
- Varied fates and transformations
- Social climbers and romantics
- Southern wild youth
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- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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