# Warren McIntyre — Short Fiction character guide

> Warren McIntyre in Short Fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Warren, McIntyre

**First appearance:** 0035-bernice-bobs-her-hair

## Snapshot

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

## Who they are

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.

## Relationships

### [Bernice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/characters/bernice)

_romantic_

Bernice is pursued by Warren, but the relationship is superficial and driven by social games and manipulation.

### [Bernice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/characters/bernice)

_romantic_

Bernice is pursued by Warren, but the relationship is superficial and driven by social games and manipulation.

### [Bernice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/characters/bernice)

_romantic_

Bernice is pursued by Warren, but the relationship is superficial and driven by social games and manipulation.

## In the story

### [Bernice Bobs Her Hair](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/chapters/bernice-bobs-her-hair)

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

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

A Yale student infatuated with Marjorie Harvey; reluctantly dances with Bernice to please Marjorie.

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

Warren observes Bernice's newfound popularity with surprise and growing interest, while still preoccupied with Marjorie.

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

Warren's porch is the target of Bernice's final act; she flings Marjorie's braids there.

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

A rancher who punches Samuel after a heated argument about the land deal, triggering Samuel's change of heart.

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