# Eleanor Savage — This Side of Paradise character guide

> Eleanor Savage in This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Eleanor, Savage, Eleanor Savage

**First appearance:** 0011-ii-experiments-in-convalescence

## Snapshot

A reckless, poetry-quoting free spirit who rides through thunderstorms and dares Amory to feel something real after the war.

## Who they are

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 wildness is less freedom than a dare she keeps raising. She matters because she tests whether Amory can love a woman who refuses to be an ideal, and what he learns from her shapes how he measures every attachment after.

## Relationships

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

_romantic_

A brief, intense intellectual and romantic connection with the wild, cynical Eleanor, ending in a bitter breakup after a night of reckless passion.

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

_romantic_

A brief, intense intellectual and romantic connection with the wild, cynical Eleanor, ending in a bitter breakup after a night of reckless passion.

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

_romantic_

A brief, intense intellectual and romantic connection with the wild, cynical Eleanor, ending in a bitter breakup after a night of reckless passion.

## In the story

### [Book II: The Education of a Personage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/chapters/book-ii-the-education-of-a-personage)

Engages in an intellectual and romantic affair with Amory, representing a fleeting escape from his despair.

### [III: Young Irony](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/this_side_of_paradise_se/chapters/iii-young-irony)

Eleanor is a mysterious, romantic, and materialistic young woman from an old Maryland family. She shares a deep intellectual and emotional bond with Amory, but their love is fated to be fleeting.

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