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The Ice Palace And Other Stories (1920)

by F. Scott Fitzgerald(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1412812674 (ISBN13: 9781412812672)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Transaction Large Print

review 1: 1. I'm on page four and I love it already. The prose is beautiful so far! I am somewhat familiar with Fitz quotes and I just found "I want to live where things happen on a big scale" - the find definitely made me smile. This may be a little premature to say, but I feel I connect with Sally so much; with her ambition, her melancholy about leaving her loved ones behind, her hunger for something more than small town life, even if the summer days are half as beautiful as Fitz describes them. I hope good things come to her. I hope she achieves and learns. But I feel for some reason Fitz won't be so kind....2. Ahem... Sally Carroll *I can see where this is headed. It's one of my own fears. Having dreams and aspirations so ardently that sooner than later turn to mediocrity. That'... mores the trouble the having great expectations of things. As a matter of fact, I think this story serves as a foundation for what gatsby eventually argued. I still hope that she will be happy.3. Whhhhhhhaaaat. Well, I guess one could say she turned out happy. Not the ending I envisioned. I was being very idealistic, but the ending was beautiful. This whole story was beautiful. It's a wonderful telling of 'great expectations' and finding that one what might initially view as intellectual or societal progress is at it's worst an abandonment of self.
review 2: I have dozens left to read, but "The Ice Palace" is my favorite so far. Fitzgerald's style forcefully boasts of its superiority with a sympathetic tone for the Southern spirit. The culture of the North is a rudely industrial and lifeless character compared to the lackadaisical yet spirited character of the South. The climax is unmercifully chilling but the resolution brings a spring thaw to a sweltering summer daze. less

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