The Ice Palace

The Ice Palace is a short story by Francis Scott Fitzgerald that was published in the Saturday Evening Post magazine in 1920 and can be found in Fitzgerald's essay book Babylon Revisited .

Summary

In the short story, Fitzgerald deals with the cultural conflict between the northern and southern states of the USA. The young Sally Carrol Harper is 19 years old and comes from the small, southernmost town of Tarleton in Georgia. The pretty, self-confident woman enjoys her life in the south on the one hand, but on the other hand she feels the urge to strive for something new, modern and intellectual. She falls in love with Harry Bellamy, a Yale graduate from the north, during a trip to North Carolina. For his sake, she moves to his hometown, whose name is not mentioned in the text. The place is described as a snow-covered, icy small town, in which the people are also cool, unfriendly and unfriendly. Sally Carrol does not feel well and misses the warmth, calm and friendliness of the south. The two visit an ice palace, where Sally Carrol loses orientation and gets lost in a labyrinth of ice. Trapped in the dark, she is overcome by a paralyzing fear that puts her in a paralyzed state. After being rescued, she leaves Harry and the North and returns to her home in Tarleton.

source

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