# Denise d'Agrion — Short Fiction character guide

> Denise d'Agrion in Short Fiction by Stanley G. Weinbaum.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Denise, So Denise

**First appearance:** 0004-the-ideal

## Snapshot

A radiant figure from van Manderpootz's experiments who becomes entangled in Dixon Wells's affections, blurring the line between ideal and reality.

## Who they are

Denise d'Agrion belongs to the strange aftermath of van Manderpootz's subjunctivisor and idealizator experiments, a woman whose existence Dixon Wells can neither fully confirm nor dismiss. She is bound up with Dixon's susceptibility to feminine charms and his recurring humiliation at the hands of the professor's inventions, one of the two women he names when tallying the year's disasters. Her presence haunts Dixon's romantic misadventures, standing as the emotional cost of dabbling in realities that may never have existed.

## In the story

### [The Ideal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_51_se/chapters/the-ideal)

Van Manderpootz's niece, who closely resembles Dixon's ideal image and becomes his romantic interest.

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