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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 It's one of my own fears. Having dreams and aspirations so ardently that sooner than later turn to mediocrity. That's 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. 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. Nov 07, Clarence Bucaro rated it really liked it. Jan 15, Lindsay rated it liked it. Great descriptive writing - beautiful and concise.

The heroine is juvenile and unlikable. Mar 23, Ryan Lindberg rated it really liked it. Fitzgerald's "The Ice Palace," shares dark romantic tropes and its theme is much like Poe's, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket;" both stories see their main characters leave the comfort of their home to dip and rise from the unconscious and consciousness.

The unconscious is a state of instinct, usually involving nature and darkness. If one dips too deep into the unconscious, they are often considered uncivilized savages, which can be dangerous.

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The conscious is enlightenment, mate Fitzgerald's "The Ice Palace," shares dark romantic tropes and its theme is much like Poe's, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket;" both stories see their main characters leave the comfort of their home to dip and rise from the unconscious and consciousness.

The conscious is enlightenment, materialism, and in "The Ice Palace" is shown through upper social class. The northerners are in the consciousness. They look down at southerners as uneducated. The north is materialistic and values their class. They have books that appear to never have been open but are used to show their sophistication, unlike the battered books Sally remembers in her southern library.

The northerners act unnaturally confining themselves to socially acceptable rules of etiquette with a narrow viewpoint, holding wealth and class as valuable. Dec 01, Kim Dennis rated it liked it Shelves: Part of me wanted to give this two stars, but I liked it better than a book that I recently rated 2 stars, so I had to go up. This is part of a Christmas collection I'm listening to. I was worried about what I would get from F. Scott Fitzgerald when it came to a Christmas type story.

This one was just a winter story, but it wasn't the feel-good type of stories I have been enjoying in the collection. In the end, I mostly just wondered what his point was with the story. The ending was just a littl Part of me wanted to give this two stars, but I liked it better than a book that I recently rated 2 stars, so I had to go up. The ending was just a little too abrupt for me. I definitely preferred The Great Gatsby.

Sep 12, Bonnie rated it it was amazing. I cried my eyes out because I can relate to Sally-Carol all too well Like Sally-Carol, I left my sleepy town to pursue adventure in an Ibsenesque city I also shudder at the idea of snow on my grave and I also love the heat, good manners, Southern Charm and interesting personalities Dec 09, Shasta Cornett rated it liked it. Being from the South and moving closer to the North I can totally understand the whole idea behind this book.

I can also see that she was wanting to do what was expected of her and when she did she was unhappy. If she would have just done what her heart wanted she wouldn't have had to pretend to be anyone but herself. Feb 20, Hannah Love rated it it was amazing Shelves: I actually really enjoyed being assigned this story for class. It spoke to me more personally than the other ones. May 02, Afnan rated it really liked it. There's two sides to me, you see. There's the sleepy old side you love; an' there's a sort of energy-- the feelin' that makes me do wild things. That's the part of me that may be useful somewhere, that'll last when I'm not beautiful any more.

I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale. Aug 25, Cathy rated it really liked it. I had to read it 3 times to imagine what was really happening. Carrol was a young lady who was engaged at a young age, the age of She was from the South and Clark was from the North. When going to an event in the North, Carrol notice the things that people were saying about the Southerners. Clark describe the Southerners as lazy and useless people. In that event,she had met a professo I had to read it 3 times to imagine what was really happening.

In that event,she had met a professor that was from Yale. My guest is because she knew that she would not be able to handle the pressure of what the Northerners were saying about the Southerners. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

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"The Ice Palace" is a modernist short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in The Saturday Evening Post, 22 May It is one of eight short stories. plaintive heaving sound, a death-rattle, followed by a short silence; and then the .. ice palace they're building now that's the first they've had since eighty-five.

The first line of the story sets up the South as an antithesis in line with popular assumptions about such things to the North, and the ice palace, a physical construct which Harry Bellamy and his like-minded northerners seem to worship: She died when she was twenty-nine. And she was the sort of girl born to stand on a wide, pillared porch and welcome folks in. The comparison between Lee and Sally Carrol is obvious: Built out of blocks of the clearest ice they could find—on a tremendous scale.

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Thus, the misunderstandings and misconceptions ensue. In a definitive Sally Carrol moment, Fitzgerald hints that a separation between the two is taking place in the subtext of the story:. Leading into the climax of the story, the pair approaches the ice palace on a dark, snowy night.

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As the commotion grows…. The sound she made bounced mockingly down to the end of the passage. Then on an instant the lights went out, and she was in complete darkness. She gave a small, frightened cry, and sank down into a cold little heap on the ice.

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She felt her left knee do something as she fell. But she scarcely noticed it as some deep terror far greater than any fear of being lost settled upon her. She must get out. Throughout, there is reference to sounds, scenes, and the psychological effects of war, no doubt taking scenes from The Great War in Europe, another way in which Sally Carrol is linked to Margery Lee and her experience during the Civil War: Here is some context for the quote:.

The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! Such sentiments espouse a potent mix of Puritanism and industriousness endorsed by mainstream America in In fact, Sally Carrol discovers that the material forces of culture operating in the North are almost identical to those of the South, and equally repressive. Retrieved from " https: Short stories by F. Articles with LibriVox links All stub articles. Views Read Edit View history.

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