The Love Decoy (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: S. J. Perelman
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The 1920's
- Setting: A college campus
- Principal Characters: Russell Gipf, Dolores Hornbostel, Dean Fothergill
- Genres: Short fiction, Wit and humor
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Sex or sexuality, Students or student life, Comedy
- Locales: United States
The Story
“The Love Decoy” begins in a packed classroom at the Tunafish College for Women. Dolores Hornbostel has just heard from Ivy Nudnick that Professor Gompers, the regular instructor, is ill and that Russell Gipf will be substituting for him. This news sends Dolores into a nostalgic reverie. She recalls going, on a previous autumn afternoon, to Professor Gipf's office to discuss an essay that she had written. Mr. Gipf, it seems, although confiding in her, provocatively, that he was studying dirty limericks for his doctoral thesis, failed to make the “usual indecent...
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