A Freeze-out by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald | Published: December 19, 1931
A Freeze-out Synopsis
"A Freeze-Out" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in The Saturday Evening Post On December 19, 1930.
One spring day, Forrest Winslow goes to a music store and comes across a girl about his age. This anonymous girl with interests in Russian music and foreign books captured Forrest's attention. Forrest could not seem to get over her. When Forrest gets home, he finds his father talking about a new family in town, the Rikkers. Forrest's father explains that Chauncey Rikkers, the head of the family, has a scandalous past and that he has a daughter around the same age as him. Right then and there, Forrest knows precisely who she is.
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Here and there in a sunless corner skulked a little snow under a veil of coal specks, but the men taking down storm windows were laboring in shirt sleeves and the turf was becoming firm underfoot.
In the streets, dresses dyed after fruit, leaf and flower emerged from beneath the shed somber skins of animals; now only a few old men wore mousy caps pulled down over their ears.
About F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 into a middle-class family. He is most well known for his novels and short stories that depict the Jazz Age. His most famous works of literature include This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby. Both have become classics, with some hailing The Great Gatsby as one of the greatest American novels ever written. Fitzgerald used his life experiences, including his tumultuous marriage to Zelda, to inspire many of these works. His writing style has had a lasting impact on American literature and culture and has inspired generations since its publication. Find out more about F. Scott Fitzgerald at sevenov.com.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Books on PageVio
Novels: This Side of Paradise | The Beautiful and Damned | The Great Gatsby | Tender Is the Night
Short Story Collections: Flappers and Philosophers | Tales of the Jazz Age | All the Sad Young Men | Taps at Reveille | The Pat Hobby Stories | Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Plays: The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman
Here's a full list of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.