# Imszanski — Women character guide

> Imszanski in Women by Zofia Nałkowska.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the Imszanski

**First appearance:** 0000-i-ice-plains

## Snapshot

A charmer who distributes smiles like a beautiful woman does flowers, and slips between tables and women without ever seeming to intrude.

## Who they are

Imszanski moves through the salon with urbane ease, greeting acquaintances and seeking out a handsome Frenchwoman whose glance lights him up — then smoothly redirecting his attention to the narrator's table when he spots them watching. His gift for graceful concealment, and the narrator's tact in not burdening him with gratitude for it, quietly implicates everyone in the room's unspoken arrangements. He is the social lubricant that keeps the novel's web of flirtations and proprieties humming.

## Relationships

### [Martha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/martha)

_psychological_

Imszanski is obsessively fixated on Martha, manipulating situations to be near her.

### [Madame Wildenhoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/madame_wildenhoff)

_professional_

Imszanski and Madame Wildenhoff have a formal working relationship, with underlying mutual suspicion.

### [Madame Wildenhoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/characters/madame_wildenhoff)

_professional_

Imszanski and Madame Wildenhoff have a formal working relationship, with underlying mutual suspicion.

## In the story

### [II: The “Garden of Red Flowers”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_se/chapters/ii-the-garden-of-red-flowers)

Martha's husband; charming and elegant, suspected of having an affair with Madame Wildenhoff, maintains social poise.

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