Reservations (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Taylor
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The early 1950's
- Setting: Cincinnati, Ohio
- Principal Characters: Franny Crowell Miller, Miles Miller, Bernice, Bill Carlisle, A prostitute
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Husbands, United States or Americans, Wives, Love or romance, Marriage, Prostitution or prostitutes, Midwest, Hotels, motels, or inns, Weddings
- Locales: Cincinnati, OH
The Story
Because of poor weather, Miles Miller and his bride, Franny Crowell Miller, must abandon their hotel reservations in Bardstown, Kentucky, and spend the first night of their honeymoon in the same local hotel in which Miles stayed immediately before his marriage.
The story begins in a locker room of the country club where the bride, Franny, and the country club maid, Bernice, are meeting the groom, Miles, so that the couple may leave for their honeymoon undetected by their guests upstairs in the ballroom. Franny is naïve, untraveled, and possessed of only a...
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