Tarleton, GA: Dead or Alive?

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

2 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

08/07/2007

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Linguistics

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Summary :

Introduction
The Tarleton of 'The Ice Palace' and 'The Last of the Belles'
The acting of Sally Carrol and Ailie
The South to which Sally Carrol and Ailie's roles belong
Conclusion
Works cited

Abstract

For those caught up in the Southern Myth, antebellum southernmost Georgia is a lot like Heaven. F. Scott Fitzgerald follows a Confederate dreamer to the North and back home to tarleton, Georgia, in his short story "The Ice Palace." The Southern girl, Sally Carrol Happer, finds herself lost in the North longing for her home, of which she has fostered a romantic portrait of the old South throughout her young life. In Fitzgerald's tale "The Last of the Belles," it is a Northern boy named Andy who wishes to return to the home of his former military camp, tarleton, of which he shares the same mystical view. Although Andy is the vantage point of his story, both works are centered on Southern belles of similar type, both longing for the adventure that the heightened pace of a Northern city promises. However, Sally Carrol Happer and Ailie Calhoun, the tarleton ideal of "The Last of the Belles," are presented at different stages in their lives although they are portrayed at the same age. The South represented by tarleton is also seen in different phases. While both stories begin in a tarleton that still retains the feeling of the old South, "The Ice Palace" ends with Sally Carrol in this same fantasy, whereas Andy finds his Eden lost at the conclusion of "The Last of the Belles," with an empty new South in its place.