The Ice Palace

"The Ice Palace" is a modernist short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in The Saturday Evening Post, 22 May 1920. It is one of eight short stories originally published in Fitzgerald's first collection, Flappers and Philosophers (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920), and is also included in the collection Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960).

Plot

Sally Carrol Happer, a young southern woman from the fictional city of Tarleton, Georgia, is bored with her unchanging environment. Her local friends are dismayed to learn she is engaged to Harry Bellamy, a man from an unspecified Northern town. She brushes off their concerns, alluding to her need for something more in her life, a need to see "things happen on a big scale."

Sally Carrol travels to the North during the winter to visit Harry's home town and meet his family. The winter weather underscores her growing disillusion with the decision to move north, until her moment of epiphany in the town's local "Ice Palace". In the end, Sally Carrol returns home.

Sequel

Fitzgerald later wrote another short story, "The Jelly-Bean", which was published in the 1922 collection Tales of the Jazz Age. A sequel to The Ice Palace, it returned to Tarleton with several references to many of the characters in the earlier work.

Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novels

This Side of Paradise (1920)
The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tender Is the Night (1934)
The Love of the Last Tycoon unfinished (1941)

Short story
collections

Flappers and Philosophers (1920)	"The Offshore Pirate" "The Ice Palace" "Head and Shoulders" "The Cut-Glass Bowl" "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" "Benediction" "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" "The Four Fists"

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)	"The Jelly-Bean" "The Camel's Back" "May Day" "Porcelain and Pink" The Diamond as Big as the Ritz "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" "Tarquin of Cheapside" "Oh Russet Witch!" "The Lees of Happiness" "Mr. Icky" "Jemina"

All the Sad Young Men (1926)	"The Rich Boy" "Winter Dreams" "The Baby Party" "Absolution" "Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les" "The Adjuster" "Hot and Cold Blood" "The Sensible Thing" "Gretchen's Forty Winks"

Taps at Reveille (1935)	"The Scandal Detectives" "The Freshest Boy" "He Thinks He's Wonderful" "The Captured Shadow" "The Perfect Life" "First Blood" "A Nice Quiet Place" "A Woman with a Past" "Crazy Sunday" "Two Wrongs" "The Night of Chancellorsville" "The Last of the Belles" "Majesty" "Family in the Wind" "A Short Trip Home" "One Interne" "The Fiend" "Babylon Revisited"

Posthumous works	Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (1960) The Basil and Josephine Stories (1962) The Pat Hobby Stories (1973) The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1989)

Plays

The Vegetable, or From President to Postman (1923)

Books

The Crack-Up (1945)

Bibliography of F. Scott Fitzgerald

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