Family In The Wind by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald | Published: June 4, 1932

Family In The Wind Synopsis

"Family in the Wind" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in the Saturday Evening Post on June 4, 1932. Later, it was also published in Taps at Reveille in 1935.

Former surgeon Dr. Forrest Janney has given up his practice because of his insobriety. However, Dr. Forrest returns to his practice due to a tragic tornado disaster.

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The two men drove up the hill toward the blood-red sun. The cotton fields bordering the road were thin and withered, and no breeze stirred in the pines.

"When I am totally sober," the doctor was saying--"I mean when I am totally sober--I don't see the same world that you do. I'm like a friend of mine who had one good eye and got glasses made to correct his bad eye; the result was that he kept seeing elliptical suns and falling off tilted curbs, until he had to throw the glasses away. Granted that I am thoroughly anesthetized the greater part of the day--well, I only undertake work that I know I can do when I am in that condition."

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 to a middle-class family in St. Paul, Minnesota. His parents were Edward Fitzgerald and Mary "Mollie" McQuillan. He attended Princeton University but dropped out to join the army during World War I. After the war, he married Zelda Sayre. Fitzgerald wrote countless short stories and novels, with some of his most famous works being The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. Although Fitzgerald died at a young age in 1940, his literary works remain ever-popular for their insight into the human condition during immense change. Find out more about F. Scott Fitzgerald at sevenov.com.