Short Fiction · Character

Warren McIntyre

A young man whose stubborn, unrelenting love for a woman already entangled elsewhere drives him to weaponize his own emotion against her.

supporting

Also known as Warren, McIntyre

First appearance: Bernice Bobs Her Hair

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A local young man who becomes infatuated with Bernice after her transformation.

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Warren McIntyre pursues a woman who has agreed to meet him but cannot return what he offers, and he wears her down at luncheon by returning again and again to his one true weapon: his own feeling. When he confronts her and her lover Cary Sloane, he stands his ground with the cold certainty of a man who knows the scandal is real. His pressure forces the affair into the open, setting the moral machinery of the story in motion.

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Romantic
Other

Character groups

Southern social drama
Social climbers and romantics
Love and obsession
Protagonist

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Breaking point
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Closing

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Relationships

Bernice
romantic · ambivalent
Bernice is pursued by Warren, but the relationship is superficial and driven by social… How this plays out →
Bernice
romantic · ambivalent
Bernice is pursued by Warren, but the relationship is superficial and driven by social… How this plays out →
Bernice
romantic · ambivalent
Bernice is pursued by Warren, but the relationship is superficial and driven by social… How this plays out →

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Bernice Bobs Her Hair
A local young man who becomes infatuated with Bernice after her transformation.
I
A Yale student infatuated with Marjorie Harvey; reluctantly dances with Bernice to please Marjorie.
IV
Warren observes Bernice's newfound popularity with surprise and growing interest, while still preoccupied with Marjorie.
V
Warren initially shows interest in Bernice after her hair bob, but his attention wanes after the haircut, and he ultimately sides with Marjorie.
VI
Warren's porch is the target of Bernice's final act; she flings Marjorie's braids there.
IV
A rancher who punches Samuel after a heated argument about the land deal, triggering Samuel's change of heart.

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