Crazy Sunday (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1931
- Setting: Hollywood
- Principal Characters: Joel Coles, Miles Calman, Stella Calman
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Psychology or psychologists, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Reality, Hallucinations or illusions
- Locales: Hollywood, CA
The Story
Joel Coles, a twenty-eight-year-old screenwriter, son of a once-successful stage actress, has spent his childhood between New York and London, trying to separate the real from the unreal. For six months he has been in Hollywood writing scenes and sequences for films as a continuity writer. He is invited to a Sunday cocktail party at the home of the Miles Calmans, a mansion in Beverly Hills “built for great emotional moments.” Miles Calman is the most significant director at the studio; his wife is the star Stella Walker, whom Miles has created (“brought that...
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