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“The Offshore Pirate”
Affluent 19 yr old party girl’s uncle’s yacht is commandeered by a curious band of pirates with an unusual leader, and she decides that she is going to have way more fun tagging along with the pirates than going back to the care of her fuddy-duddy uncle and aunt. A romance of circumstances ensues. You can see where his short story writing differs from his novels.
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Affluent 19 yr old party girl’s uncle’s yacht is commandeered by a curious band of pirates with an unusual leader, and she decides that she is going to have way more fun tagging along with the pirates than going back to the care of her fuddy-duddy uncle and aunt. A romance of circumstances ensues. You can see where his short story writing differs from his novels.
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“The Ice Palace”
Fitzgerald, who was born in Minnesota, married a Southern Belle from Georgia. The Sally of this story is a Georgian girl who goes to her Northern Fiancé’s hometown and finds herself gradually at odds with everything about the North, culminating in a terrifying entombment in the pitch-black passages of the labyrinth at the bottom of the Ice Palace.
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Fitzgerald, who was born in Minnesota, married a Southern Belle from Georgia. The Sally of this story is a Georgian girl who goes to her Northern Fiancé’s hometown and finds herself gradually at odds with everything about the North, culminating in a terrifying entombment in the pitch-black passages of the labyrinth at the bottom of the Ice Palace.
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Like, specifically, Fitzgerald’s main story template (and he admits this) is a man falling in love with a beautiful girl who he cannot marry because of Money. This is the death of Amory’s relationship with Rosalind; in Anthony and Gloria, we see an example of what happens if they marry ANYway; and here, we are set up with a sob story that Fitzgerald overturns with a paper-pleasing twist, as the pirate affair is an elaborate hoax for Toby to make an eternal first impression.
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