The Ice House (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Caroline Gordon
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1866
- Setting: The South
- Principal Characters: Doug, Raeburn, A Yankee contractor
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Values, Tradition, South or Southerners, Criticism, Materialism, Technology, Skeleton, Commerce
- Locales: South (U.S.)
The Story
Doug, an enterprising southern lad, has found a few days’ employment with a Yankee contractor. He has been hired to remove from a pit in an ice house the skeletons of Union soldiers who were killed in a battle about four years earlier, in 1862. At that time, the frozen December ground precluded digging graves, and the bodies were placed in the ice house to await a future burial.
After enlisting the aid of his close friend Raeburn, Doug waits for him early on an April morning. When Raeburn is late, he becomes irritated, fearing that the contractor might not...
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