How Beautiful with Shoes (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wilbur Daniel Steele
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: Rural Virginia
- Principal Characters: Amarantha Doggett, Mrs. Doggett, Ruby Herter, Humble Jewett
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, South or Southerners, Escapes, Poetry or poets, Beauty, Mental illness, Farms, farmers, or farming, Naivete, Aesthetics
- Locales: Virginia
The Story
On a remote farm in rural Virginia in the early part of the 1900's, an almost totally deaf Mrs. Doggett calls to her daughter, Amarantha, who prefers being called Mary or Mare. It is spring, and Amarantha has finished some of the more laborious farm chores, milking the cows and feeding the pigs, when her fiancé, Ruby Herter, stops by with his horse and carriage to remind the young girl that she belongs to him. Just as Ruby Herter kisses his betrothed, they hear a car driving up to the farm with the news that someone who is believed to be a killer has escaped from...
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