The Enduring Chill (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Flannery O’Connor
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The early 1960's
- Setting: A small southern town
- Principal Characters: Asbury Fox, Mrs. Fox, Mary George, Dr. Block
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Intellectuals, Authors or writers, Depression, mental, Sick persons, Life and death, Pretensions
- Locales: South (U.S.)
The Story
Asbury Fox is a failed writer. Leaving behind the provincialism of his small-town southern roots, he moved to New York to seek his destiny as a playwright, novelist, and poet. His legacy, however, consists only of “two lifeless novels . . . stationary plays . . . prosy poems . . . sketchy short stories.” He returns home believing that he is dying of some unnamed disease. He is also out of money.
Met at the train station by his mother and sister, Asbury certainly looks like one about to die, and his mother immediately plans Asbury's recuperation: mornings...
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