City Boy (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Leonard Michaels
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century
- Setting: New York City, Upper East Side
- Principal Characters: Phillip, Veronica, Morris Cohen, Ludwig
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: New York, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, New York City, Manners or customs, Upper classes, Youth, Single people, Apartment houses, Wealth, Heart attack or disease, Dating, Urban life
- Locales: New York, NY
The Story
In Phillip's narrative, the thoughtless sexual behavior of Phillip and his girlfriend, Veronica, causes Veronica's father to have a heart attack. Though shamed, sorrowful, and vexed with Phillip, Veronica, on learning from her mother that her father will survive the attack, demands sex from Phillip.
At the outset of the story, Phillip and Veronica are having sex on the rug in the living room of her family home, surrounded in the dark by her family's expensive paintings and furnishings. Because her parents are in the next room, Veronica says what they are doing...
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