# Clara Page — This Side of Paradise character guide

> Clara Page in This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Clara Page, Clara

**First appearance:** 0007-iv-narcissus-off-duty

## Snapshot

Amory's widowed cousin, whose beauty and quiet goodness make her the one woman he worships without ever quite daring to pursue.

## Who they are

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 once, bound by duty, immune to his charm — and his longing for her becomes a rehearsal for the disappointments ahead. She matters as the standard of purity against which Amory measures Rosalind and every later romance, and as proof that the thing he wants most is the thing he cannot have.

## Relationships

### [Amory Blaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/amory_blaine)

_romantic_

Amory's platonic but deeply admiring love for his older, widowed cousin Clara, who represents an unattainable ideal of purity and maternal warmth.

### [Amory Blaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/amory_blaine)

_romantic_

Amory's platonic but deeply admiring love for his older, widowed cousin Clara, who represents an unattainable ideal of purity and maternal warmth.

### [Amory Blaine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/characters/amory_blaine)

_romantic_

Amory's platonic but deeply admiring love for his older, widowed cousin Clara, who represents an unattainable ideal of purity and maternal warmth.

## In the story

### [Narcissus Off Duty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/chapters/iv-narcissus-off-duty)

Amory's widowed cousin living in Philadelphia; her golden radiance and resilience impress Amory.

### [The Egotist Becomes a Personage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/chapters/v-the-egotist-becomes-a-personage)

Listed among the women Amory once idealized but now sees as removed by their beauty from contributing anything meaningful.

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