Snow (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Adams
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: An April day during the 1970's
- Setting: California's Sierra Nevada Mountains
- Principal Characters: Graham, Carol, Susannah, Rose
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1970’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Homosexuality or homosexuals, California, West, U.S., Lesbianism or lesbians, Fathers, Mountain life, Mountains, Snow, Skis or skiing, Spring
- Locales: California, Sierra Nevadas
The Story
Graham has brought three women together for a weekend skiing trip and is feeling apprehensive about having done so. He is not certain what he feels for his new girlfriend, Carol; he worries that he has spent his life misunderstanding his daughter, Susannah; and he is not sure that he really wants to meet Susannah's lover, Rose. The athletic Graham easily strides ahead of the group, not realizing that each of the women who follows is privately dealing with apprehensions of her own. Carol worries that Graham might be interested in her only because she is beautiful,...
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