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In a climactic moment, this character feels like “Marie Antoinette bound for the guillotine” before meeting a man in a “white coat” who drops his cigarette in disbelief at this character’s strange request. When speaking of “common kindness,” this character is cut off by an interlocutor who says that quoting Little Women is “out of style.” A sixteen-year-old boy threatens to use a two-by-four to hit this character returning from a dressing-room. While eavesdropping on her aunt and (*) cousin, this character listens to a criticism of her “crazy Indian blood.” After agreeing to go to the Sevier (10[1])Hotel in an effort to impress Warren McIntyre, this character realizes that her cousin Marjorie has tricked her, (10[1])leading this character to cut off (10[1])Marjorie’s braids (10[1])before heading back to Eau Claire. For 10 points, name this girl who, in an F. Scott Fitzgerald story, “Bobs Her Hair.” ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Bernice [accept “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”]
<Literature - American Literature - Short Fiction>
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