The Ice Palace

The Ice Palace is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920 in the U.S. magazine Saturday Evening Post and is found in Fitzgerald's Babylon Revisited essays.

Summary

In the short story Fitzgerald discusses the cultural conflict between the northern and southern United States. The young Sally Carrol Harper is 19 years old and comes from the small southernmost gelegenem place Tarleton in Georgia. The pretty, confident woman enjoying her life in the South on the one hand, on the other they feel the urge for something new, modern and intellectual striving. She falls in love during a trip to North Carolina in Harry Bellamy, a Yale graduate from the North. For his sake she moves to his hometown, whose name is not mentioned in the text. The place is described as snowy and icy small town where the people are cool, haughty and rude. Sally Carrol is not feeling well and missing the warmth, tranquility and friendliness of the South. The two visit an ice palace in which Sally Carrol disoriented and runs out of ice in a maze. Trapped in the darkness comes over a crippling fear that they put into a paralyzed state. After her rescue she leaves Harry and the north and returns to their home Tarleton.

Source

• F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited And Other Stories. Scribner, New York 2003, ISBN 0-684-82448-5.

• By F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Short story
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Literature (United States)
• Literary work