# Katie Fox — The Informer character guide

> Katie Fox in The Informer by Liam O’Flaherty.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Kitty

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Who they are

Gypo's lover, a dope-maddened woman of the tenements, she sells his hiding place to the men hunting him and then cannot undo what she has done.

## Relationships

### [Gypo Nolan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/gypo_nolan)

_romantic_

Gypo is infatuated with Katie, but she manipulates him for her own ends.

### [Maggie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/maggie)

_friendship_

Katie and Maggie are friends and confidantes, often gossiping about men and the revolution.

### [Gypo Nolan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/gypo_nolan)

_romantic_

Gypo is infatuated with Katie, but she manipulates him for her own ends.

### [Gypo Nolan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/gypo_nolan)

_romantic_

Gypo is infatuated with Katie, but she manipulates him for her own ends.

### [Maggie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/maggie)

_friendship_

Katie and Maggie are friends and confidantes, often gossiping about men and the revolution.

### [Maggie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/maggie)

_friendship_

Katie and Maggie are friends and confidantes, often gossiping about men and the revolution.

## In the story

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

Katie, a former revolutionary now a drug addict and prostitute, confronts Gypo in the pub. Her intuition senses his secret, and she alternates between anger and mournful sympathy.

### [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/chapters/x)

Bursts into Biddy Burke's, angry about Gypo and Maggie; later receives a pound note from Maggie.

### [Chapter XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/chapters/xi)

Katie is mentioned by Gypo as someone he was drinking with earlier in the evening.

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/chapters/xvi)

Rambles about her imagined aristocratic past and a curse on her family while Gypo sleeps in her lodging house.

### [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/chapters/xvii)

Reported by Mulholland as the one who informed on Gypo's whereabouts; she is described as 'mad with dope.'

## Links

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