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Violence
None
No violence
Language
None
No strong language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Mild; the spiritual tension between religious vocation and secular desire
What this book is about
F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story, published in 1920, follows Lois, a young flapper-era woman who visits her brother Keith at a Jesuit seminary and finds herself unexpectedly moved by the religious atmosphere — even as she is pulled back toward the secular world by a telegram from a man who wants to marry her. One of Fitzgerald's most spiritually serious early stories, reflecting his ambivalent Catholic upbringing.
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