Minor Characters
Jesse Ferrenby
Jesse Ferrenby is a friend of Amory’s at Princeton. Jesse competes with Amory to be on the board of the Daily Princetonian. Jesse is a passenger in the car crash that kills Dick. Jesse later dies in the war.
Fred Sloane
Fred Sloane is a friend of Amory’s at Princeton. He’s with Amory when Amory thinks he sees a devil. Fred, along with Jesse, is a passenger in the car crash that kills Dick.
Dawson Ryder
Dawson Ryder is an unremarkable but wealthy bachelor who is Amory’s rival for Rosalind’s affection. Rosalind eventually ends her relationship with Amory and decides to marry Dawson instead. Dawson convinces Rosalind that she will grow to love him.
Myra St. Claire
Myra St. Clair is the first girl Amory kisses, at a bob-sledding party in Minneapolis. Myra gives Amory his first experience of being disappointed and fickle about love: after they kiss, Amory feels disgusted by her and does not want to kiss her again, hurting her feelings.
Frog Parker
Frog Parker is Amory’s friend from Minneapolis. Amory competes with Frog for girls’ attention and worries what Frog thinks of him.
Rahill
Rahill is one of Amory’s few friends in his final year at St. Regis. Amory considers him a “co-philosopher.” Rahill is their class president. Rahill and Amory invent the concept of “the slicker.”
Sally Weatherby
Sally Weatherby is one of Amory’s friends and crushes from his time in Minneapolis. She writes him letters while he’s at Princeton. She’s also Isabelle’s cousin and introduces Isabelle to Amory.
Mrs. Connage
Mrs. Connage is Alec, Rosalind, and Cecilia’s mother. She disapproves of Amory because of his poverty and persuades Rosalind to marry Dawson Ryder instead.
Mrs. Lawrence
Mrs. Lawrence is a friend of Monsignor Darcy’s with whom Amory becomes acquainted. Spending time with her makes Amory more hopeful about his life and future.
Jill Wayne
Jill Wayne is Alec’s romantic companion. Amory, Jill, and Alec are in an Atlantic City hotel room together when detectives approach the room, trying to catch an unmarried couple having sex with each other. Amory takes the blame for breaking the law.
Mr. Ferrenby
Mr. Ferrenby is Jesse’s father. At the end of the novel, Mr. Ferrenby offers Amory a ride to Princeton when he spots Amory attempting to get there on foot. They disagree about politics but wish each other well due to their mutual connection.
Mr. Barton
Mr. Barton is the Blaine family’s lawyer. He sends Amory bad news about the state of his family’s finances, especially regarding their investments and the Lake Geneva Estate, after Beatrice and Stephen’s deaths.
Howard Gillespie
Howard Gillespie is one of Rosalind’s wealthy suitors whom she rejects.
Cecilia Connage
Cecilia Connage is Alec and Rosalind’s sister.