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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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I imagine that this story is an exercise in empathy for Zelda. Harry is a “fine guy” but he takes no pains to understand Sally and even spends an extended amount of time haranguing Southerners in an unusual segment. The moment that Sally is in the tunnels, you could know what was going to happen, but it’s excellent terror all the same.
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Another part of the story that gives insight into Fitzgerald’s thoughts on Zelda—there’s a bit in, uh, TSoP, I think, that has Amory walking through a graveyard, and the sentiment he has there is based on something that Zelda had once expressed to him… and here, the Zelda analogue takes Harry walking through a graveyard as a sort of romantic thing, a sort of ease of feeling emotions that one of the side characters of the book contrasts with the Scandinavian overtones of a posited northerner-Midwest tendency toward… inhibiting the expression of great emotions.
Aghhh fudge Zelda was from Alabama not Georgia.
