End of the Game (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Julio Cortázar
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century
- Setting: A country home somewhere in Argentina
- Principal Characters: Letitia, Holanda, The narrator, Ariel
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Girls, Maturation or coming of age, Teenagers, Sex or sexuality, Reality, Fantasy, Vacations, Games
- Locales: Argentina
The Story
As the title of this story indicates, the characters are playing a game that comes to an end at the close of the narrative. Letitia, Holanda, and the narrator spend their summer vacation thinking of ways either to confuse or to elude the authority figures in their lives, the narrator's mother and her Aunt Ruth. When they manage to escape the watchful eyes of the adults, Letitia, Holanda, and the narrator retreat to their “kingdom,” an area near the railroad tracks where they can act out their game and thus enter into a fantasy world of “Statues and...
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