The Ice Palace:
An Introduction
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"The Ice Palace" appeared in the 22 May 1920 issue of the Saturday Evening Post
and was collected in Flappers and Philosophers. It was the first of a group of
stories in which Fitzgerald examined the cultural as well as social differences
between the North and South. "It is a grotesquely pictorial country as I found
out long ago, and as Mr. Faulkner has since abundantly demonstrated," he
commented in 1940. Fitzgerald was particularly aware of the influence of the
South on its women -- a concern that was reinforced by his marriage to an
Alabama belle.
The text of The Ice Palace.
This page updated 4 December 1996.
Copyright 1996, the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina.
URL http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/icepalace/index.html
