# The Beautiful and Damned — Character guide

> Key figures in The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

- [Anthony Patch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_beautiful_and_damned_se/characters/anthony_patch.md): Anthony moves through Manhattan drawing social security from the fortune of his grandfather Adam J. Patch, a Wall Street millionaire turned moral reformer who named him after Anthony Comstock. He fancies himself exceptio
- [Gloria Gilbert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_beautiful_and_damned_se/characters/gloria_gilbert.md): Gloria arrives in the East with a mother who has watched young men walk her library like caged tigers, phoning, writing, threatening South America, and never lasting. She strikes to kill without deliberate cruelty, cool 
- [Maury Noble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_beautiful_and_damned_se/characters/maury_noble.md): Maury presides over Anthony's drawing room with a bottle and a theory, greeting the social-service worker Paramore with a glow of suspicion as though the man had announced himself an amateur pickpocket. He could rescue A
- [Richard Caramel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_beautiful_and_damned_se/characters/richard_caramel.md): Dick Caramel abandons the Alien Young Men's Rescue Association and a Sun reporting job after filing a column about a parade that snow postponed, then throws himself into writing The Demon Lover. He pours his hopes and in
- [Muriel Kane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_beautiful_and_damned_se/characters/muriel_kane.md): Muriel moves through the Patches' apartment with obliging levity, greeting strangers as Fred and trading gossip about who is in her prime. When Anthony storms out drunk and Gloria sits composed in the lamplight, Muriel i
- [Joseph Bloeckman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_beautiful_and_damned_se/characters/joseph_bloeckman.md): Bloeckman meets Gloria at Delmonico's, tolerates her invidious nickname, and proposes within a month, offering everything from an Italian villa to a career on the screen. She laughs in his face and he laughs too, but he 
- [Adam J. Patch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_beautiful_and_damned_se/characters/adam_j_patch.md): A Civil War major turned Wall Street buccaneer who amassed seventy-five million, then spent his last years waging war on vice, art, and his own grandson's prospects.
- [Dorothy Raycroft](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_beautiful_and_damned_se/characters/dorothy_raycroft.md): A young woman Anthony meets as his marriage frays, offering a brief, careless affair that exposes how far he has drifted from the man he meant to be.
- [Geraldine Burke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_beautiful_and_damned_se/characters/geraldine_burke.md): A working-class girl Anthony dates before meeting Gloria, representing his earlier romantic life.
- [Mrs. Gilbert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_beautiful_and_damned_se/characters/mrs_gilbert.md): Gloria's mother, who chaperones her and disapproves of Anthony's influence.
- [Tana](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_beautiful_and_damned_se/characters/tana.md): Anthony's loyal Japanese servant who remains with him through his decline.
- [Captain Collins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_beautiful_and_damned_se/characters/captain_collins.md): An army officer Anthony meets during his military service.
- [Shuttleworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_beautiful_and_damned_se/characters/shuttleworth.md): A minor character in the social circle, often mentioned in passing.
- [Old Halloran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_beautiful_and_damned_se/characters/old_halloran.md): An elderly man mentioned in passing during Anthony's reflections.

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