Party Stories by Ella Carr

Party Stories by Ella CarrMomentous parties have long provided dramatic scenes in fiction, from Natashas first ball in War and Peace to Lizzie meeting Darcy in Pride and Prejudice to J. Edgar Hoover consorting with Truman Capote in Don DeLillos The Black and White Ball. Revelry can be revealing of character, as in Jay Gatsbys extravagant bash in F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby and the decadent partying of the jaded expats in Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises. More

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