The Ice Palace

"The Ice Palace" is a modernist short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in The Saturday Evening Post, 22 May 1920. It is one of eight short stories originally published in Fitzgerald's first collection, Flappers and Philosophers (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920), and is also included in the collection Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960).

The story is about Sally Carrol Happer, a young southern woman from the fictional city of Tarleton, Georgia, who is bored with her unchanging environment. Her local friends are dismayed to learn she is engaged to Harry Bellamy, a man from an unspecified northern town. She brushes off their concerns, alluding to her need for something more in her life, a need to see "things happen on a big scale." Sally Carrol travels to the north, during the winter, to visit Harry's home town and meet Harry's family. The winter weather underscores her growing disillusion with the decision to move north, until her moment of epiphany in the town's local "Ice Palace." In the end, Sally Carrol returns home.

Fitzgerald later wrote another short story entitled 'The Jelly-Bean', which was published in the collection 'Tales of the Jazz Age'. This story was written as a sequel to The Ice Palace and returned to Tarleton with several references to many of the characters in the earlier work.

Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novels
  • This Side of Paradise
  • The Beautiful and Damned
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Tender Is the Night
  • The Love of the Last Tycoon
Short story
collections
Flappers and Philosophers
(1920)
  • "The Offshore Pirate"
  • "The Ice Palace"
  • "Head and Shoulders"
  • "The Cut-Glass Bowl"
  • "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
  • "Benediction"
  • "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong"
  • "The Four Fists"
Tales of the Jazz Age
(1922)
  • "The Jelly-Bean"
  • "The Camel's Back"
  • "May Day"
  • "Porcelain and Pink"
  • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
  • "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
  • "Tarquin of Cheapside"
  • "Oh Russet Witch!"
  • "The Lees of Happiness"
  • "Mr. Icky"
  • "Jemina"
All the Sad Young Men
(1926)
  • "The Rich Boy"
  • "Winter Dreams"
  • "The Baby Party"
  • "Absolution"
  • "Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les"
  • "The Adjuster"
  • "Hot and Cold Blood"
  • "The Sensible Thing"
  • "Gretchen's Forty Winks"
Taps at Reveille
(1935)
  • "The Scandal Detectives"
  • "The Freshest Boy"
  • "He Thinks He's Wonderful"
  • "The Captured Shadow"
  • "The Perfect Life"
  • "First Blood"
  • "A Nice Quiet Place"
  • "A Woman with a Past"
  • "Crazy Sunday"
  • "Two Wrongs"
  • "The Night of Chancellorsville"
  • "The Last of the Belles"
  • "Majesty"
  • "Family in the Wind"
  • "A Short Trip Home"
  • "One Interne"
  • "The Fiend"
  • "Babylon Revisited"
Posthumous works
  • Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (1960)
  • The Basil and Josephine Stories (1962)
  • The Pat Hobby Stories (1973)
  • The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1989)
Plays
  • The Vegetable, or From President to Postman
Books
  • The Crack-Up
Bibliography of F. Scott Fitzgerald
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