Truth or Consequences (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Adams
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1930's
- Setting: Hilton, a fictitious southern city
- Principal Characters: Emily Ames, Carstairs Jones
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Acting or actors, Adolescence, Teenagers, Love or romance, South or Southerners, 1930’s, Obsession, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Games
- Locales: South (U.S.), Hilton (fictive)
The Story
The story opens with the narrator, Emily Ames, reading a gossip column about Carstairs Jones marrying a famous former movie star, and she decides that this man must be the same Car Jones whom she knew many years earlier. She then recounts the history of that extraordinary spring when she first met Car Jones in the seventh grade. She relives the day when she played “truth or consequences” with friends and said that she would rather kiss Car Jones than be eaten alive by ants.
Emily and her mother moved to the university town of Hilton the fall before the...
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