Happy August the Tenth (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tennessee Williams
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1960's
- Setting: New York City and rural Connecticut
- Principal Characters: Elphinstone, Horne, Her mother
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Friendship, Fear, Women, Loneliness, Polio, Psychiatry or psychiatrists
- Locales: New York, NY, Connecticut
The Story
For ten years, Elphinstone and Horne, two unmarried women in their forties, have shared a small apartment on the fifth floor of a brownstone on East Sixty-first Street. They have abided by their original agreement to swap bedrooms during the dog days of August and September every year so that Elphinstone will have the one air-conditioned bedroom during the hottest time of the year. The story opens on the morning of August tenth with Horne popping her head into Elphinstone's cool bedroom and shrieking, “Happy August the Tenth!” at her apartment mate, waking...
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