The Tender Shoot (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Colette
- First Published: 1943
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: May, 1940, and 1923
- Setting: Paris and a region of Doubs in Franche-Comte
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Albin Chaveriat, Louisette, The Mother
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Betrayal, Alienation, Friendship, Loneliness
- Locales: Paris, France
The Story
The opening dialogue of “The Tender Shoot” introduces the reader to an unidentified woman and an old friend of hers to whom she gives the name Albin Chaveriat. Evidently this name is chosen to hide the real identity of the storyteller. The setting is Paris, in May of 1940. Over dinner, the woman persuades her seventy-year-old bachelor friend to tell her a story of his love life, a secret life that limited, for the woman at least, a deeper sense of their friendship.
The woman has just encouraged Chaveriat to spend his time in the country, while the war...
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