# Sally Carrol Happer — Short Fiction character guide

> Sally Carrol Happer in Short Fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Sally Carrol, Sally Carroll, Sally

**First appearance:** 0042-the-ice-palace

## Snapshot

A Tarleton, Georgia belle engaged to a Northern man, she sizes up his world with feline instinct and finds its chill unsettling.

## Who they are

Sally Carrol arrives in the Northwest as Harry Bellamy's fiancée, expecting the same easy flirtation she commanded at home, and instead meets a crowd that treats her engagement like a quarantine. She likes Roger Patton at once — his watery blue eyes hold an appreciation the athletes lack — and confesses that snow outside her window feels like something dead moving. Her private taxonomy of people into feline and canine becomes the story's quiet measure of how badly she fits here.

## Relationships

### [Harry Bellamy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/characters/harry_bellamy)

_romantic_

Harry is romantically involved with Sally Carrol, but their relationship is strained by cultural differences and Harry's possessiveness.

### [Harry Bellamy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/characters/harry_bellamy)

_romantic_

Harry is romantically involved with Sally Carrol, but their relationship is strained by cultural differences and Harry's possessiveness.

### [Harry Bellamy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/characters/harry_bellamy)

_romantic_

Harry is romantically involved with Sally Carrol, but their relationship is strained by cultural differences and Harry's possessiveness.

## In the story

### [The Ice Palace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/chapters/the-ice-palace)

The protagonist, a Southern woman visiting her fiancé in the North, who feels alienated by the cold and eventually gets lost in the ice palace.

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

A nineteen-year-old girl resting her chin on a windowsill, eating an apple, and painting paper dolls. She is torn between her love for Tarleton and her desire for a larger life.

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

Shares her romanticized view of the Old South and her love for Harry Bellamy while visiting the cemetery.

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

Feels confused and out of place in the North; reflects on acting a part when expressing love for Harry.

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

Visits the Bellamy family, enjoys winter sports, clashes with Harry over Southern identity, and is emotionally stirred by 'Dixie'.

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

Experiences profound dread and a sense of alienation in the ice palace; becomes lost in the labyrinth and suffers a crisis of identity and fear of death.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/chapters/vi)

Lazily resting on a window seat, watching the spring heat and agreeing to go swimming with Clark.

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

Mentioned as Nancy Lamar's inseparable friend, who has left a trail of broken hearts from Atlanta to New Orleans.

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

Mentioned among the girls at the dance, described as blonde and lazy-eyed in pink.

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