# Ellen Baker — Short Fiction character guide

> Ellen Baker in Short Fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Ellen, Miss Ellen

**First appearance:** 0200-magnetism

## Snapshot

A rose-skinned, perceptive young woman whose quiet composure and withheld attention make her the still center of a restless social world.

## Who they are

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 possessed set her apart from the frantic courtship around her. The narrator's scramble to protect her from a scandal he half-guesses shows how much her safety organizes the story's anxious middle.

## In the story

### [A Short Trip Home](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/chapters/a-short-trip-home)

A young woman from the narrator's hometown who is under the influence of a mysterious and possibly dangerous stranger.

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

The central female figure, recently blossomed into a captivating young woman, who mysteriously leaves a party with a sinister man.

### [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/chapters/ii)

Ellen is the central figure of concern; she is secretive, emotionally conflicted, and under the influence of a mysterious man she met on a train.

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

The narrator's love interest; not present for Easter, but the narrator feels a possessive bond with her.

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