# Wessel Caxter — Short Fiction character guide

> Wessel Caxter in Short Fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Wessel, Caxter

**First appearance:** 0000-tarquin-of-cheapside

## Who they are

An old sailor who becomes a reader and storyteller.

## In the story

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

A reader and indolent man in Elizabethan England, he hides Soft Shoes from pursuers and later gives him writing materials.

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

Works through the night, exhausted, and reads the guest's manuscript aloud.

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