# This Side of Paradise — Character guide

> Key figures in This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

- [Amory Blaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/amory_blaine.md): A handsome, egotistical Princeton romantic who inherits his mother's charm and his father's wavering, and spends his youth chasing love, status, and a self worth believing in.
- [Rosalind Connage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/rosalind_connage.md): A radiant, self-aware debutante who treats flirtation as a fine art and marriage as a market, and who finds in Amory the one man she cannot quite manage.
- [Monsignor Darcy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/monsignor_darcy.md): A worldly Catholic priest and Amory's wisest correspondent, mixing champagne, theology, and hard truths about the romantic egotist he mentors.
- [Beatrice Blaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/beatrice_blaine.md): Amory's exquisite, restless mother, raised among cardinals and queens, whose cultivated contempt and fashionable boredom shape her son's taste for the extraordinary.
- [Isabelle Borgé](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/isabelle_borge.md): A pretty, poised young flirt from Minneapolis whose carefully staged romance with Amory teaches him more about his own vanity than about love.
- [Burne Holiday](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/burne_holiday.md): Amory's principled, ascetic Princeton friend, whose quiet rebellion against club culture and convention becomes a mirror for Amory's own half-formed ideals.
- [Eleanor Savage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/eleanor_savage.md): Eleanor arrives in Amory's life like weather — impulsive, theatrical, and unimpressed by the careful poses he has learned to wear. Their romance runs on argument, verse, and shared contempt for convention, but her wildne
- [Clara Page](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/clara_page.md): Clara belongs to the older, steadier world of family and Philadelphia propriety, a young widow raising children with a grace Amory finds almost unbearable. He idealizes her precisely because she is unavailable — married 
- [Tom D'Invilliers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/tom_dinvilliers.md): Tom drifts through Princeton with a volume of Swinburne and a talent for puncturing the campus's self-importance, trading verses and cynicism with Amory in late-night rooms. He is more genuinely literary than Amory and l
- [Alec Connage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/alec_connage.md): Alec moves easily between the Princeton set and the Long Island world of the Connages, drinking, joking, and never quite settling into anything. His loyalty to Amory is real but loose, and his own appetites — for drink, 
- [Fred Sloane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/fred_sloane.md): A wealthy and carefree Princeton classmate of Amory.
- [Myra St. Claire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/myra_st_claire.md): A young woman Amory briefly courts in his youth.
- [Howard Gillespie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/howard_gillespie.md): A wealthy suitor for Rosalind, representing old money and stability.
- [Kerry Holiday](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/kerry_holiday.md): Burne Holiday's brother, a fellow Princeton student.
- [Dawson Ryder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/dawson_ryder.md): A wealthy suitor who eventually marries Rosalind.
- [Dick Humbird](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/dick_humbird.md): A popular and tragic Princeton classmate of Amory.
- [Phyllis Styles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/phyllis_styles.md): A flirtatious young woman at a party Amory attends.
- [Sally Weatherby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/sally_weatherby.md): A friend of Rosalind's and part of her social circle.
- [Froggy Parker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/froggy_parker.md): A childhood friend of Amory from Minneapolis.
- [Jesse Ferrenby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/jesse_ferrenby.md): A Princeton classmate and friend of Amory.
- [Stephen Blaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/stephen_blaine.md): Amory's father, a distant and ineffectual figure.
- [Carling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/carling.md): A Princeton classmate of Amory.
- [Count Del Monte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/count_del_monte.md): A minor European nobleman encountered by Amory.

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