# Anders Fuchs — The Story of Gösta Berling character guide

> Anders Fuchs in The Story of Gösta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Major Fuchs, Fuchs, the grim Major Anders Fuchs

**First appearance:** 0005-part-i-i-the-landscape

## Snapshot

A grim, silent major among the Ekeby pensioners, Anders Fuchs carries old wars in his bearing and speaks mostly when there is nothing left to say.

## Who they are

Major Fuchs belongs to the loose brotherhood of pensioners who dine at Ekeby and answer, in their own fashion, to the whims of the place. Where Beerencreutz is calm and Bergh is loud, Fuchs is the closed door — a soldier whose silences and small cruelties hint at a life he does not discuss. His presence gives the pensioners their weight of unspoken history, and his loyalties quietly matter as the household's fortunes turn.

## Relationships

### [Little Faber](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_g_sta_berling_se/characters/little_faber)

_friendship_

Close companions among the cavaliers, often seen together in camaraderie.

### [Marianne Sinclair](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_g_sta_berling_se/characters/marianne_sinclair)

_friendship_

Friendly ally who respects Marianne and supports her relationship with Gösta.

### [Marianne Sinclair](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_g_sta_berling_se/characters/marianne_sinclair)

_friendship_

Friendly ally who respects Marianne and supports her relationship with Gösta.

### [Little Faber](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_g_sta_berling_se/characters/little_faber)

_friendship_

Close companions among the cavaliers, often seen together in camaraderie.

### [Little Faber](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_g_sta_berling_se/characters/little_faber)

_friendship_

Close companions among the cavaliers, often seen together in camaraderie.

## In the story

### [VII: The Old Vehicles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_g_sta_berling_se/chapters/part-i-vii-the-old-vehicles)

Major Fuchs, the bear-killer, is mentioned as one of the pensioners who spits to ward off the evil of meeting the major's wife.

### [VIII: The Great Bear in Gurlitta Cliff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_g_sta_berling_se/chapters/part-i-viii-the-great-bear-in-gurlitta-cliff)

The grim bear-killer, obsessed with killing the bear, loses sleep and appetite.

### [I: Cousin Christopher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_g_sta_berling_se/chapters/part-ii-i-cousin-christopher)

Major Fuchs participates in the Easter witch burning, shooting his gun into the air.

### [XIII: The Churchyard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_g_sta_berling_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii-the-churchyard)

Accompanies Beerencreutz to the grave, expressing indignation that such a man as Acquilon lies outside the churchyard.

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