The characters / Recurring character
Carol Gerber
Carol Gerber is recorded in 6 distinct storys.
The narratives connect Carol to her Harwich childhood with Bobby Garfield and Sully-John, her later activism, and Ted Brautigan’s concern for the same childhood friends. Red Carol is explicitly Carol Gerber’s activist nickname; both accounts link the alias to the Danbury violence and her earlier relationships.
Also recorded as Red Carol.
Stories and supporting passages
Blind Willie
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… Willie had known for sure that Sullivan had no idea of what Doolin, O’Meara, and he had done to Carol Gerber. There was no relief in knowing he was safe, however. None. And as he smiled and squeezed Sullivan’s hand, he had thought: You were right to be …
Willie remembers the childhood attack on Carol and Sullivan’s ignorance of it.
Hearts in Atlantis
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It was a good meal to have because the Commons was never busy on Saturday mornings. Carol Gerber, the silverware girl, stood at the head of the conveyor belt.
Carol works the silverware station beside the narrator in the college commons.
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Somewhere I think I still have that card . . . as I’m sure that somewhere “Red Carol” Gerber has still got her little snapshot of her childhood friends. If she’s still alive, that is. Not exactly a sure thing; a lot of her last-known bunch of friends are not.
Red Carol is explicitly Carol Gerber’s activist nickname; both accounts link the alias to the Danbury violence and her earlier relationships.
Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling
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Bobby recalls the reported death of Carol; the passage establishes his recollection rather than her actual fate.
Low Men in Yellow Coats
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Of course it was just a kid’s dream, but Carol Gerber up the street had a whole set of dolls her father, who was in the Navy, had sent from overseas.
Bobby thinks of Carol up the street and the dolls sent by her Navy father.
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
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… been told that his special friends from Connecticut—a boy named Robert Garfield and a girl named Carol Gerber—will die if he makes any more trouble. Also he’s come to realize that while a number of his fellow Breakers regard him as a mentor, and some, such as …
Ted is threatened with the deaths of his Connecticut friends Robert Garfield and Carol Gerber.
Why We’re in Vietnam
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It was the spring of 1970 and Carol Gerber was undoubtedly busy smoking pot and giving blowjobs to end-the-war hippies while her old high-school boyfriend was getting his balls blown off on …
Sully remembers his high-school girlfriend Carol while thinking about Vietnam.
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Red Carol is explicitly Carol Gerber’s activist nickname; both accounts link the alias to the Danbury violence and her earlier relationships.