So We Read On by Maureen Corrigan

Author:Maureen Corrigan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary Criticism / Books & Reading, Literary Criticism / American / General
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2014-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

It was a meaningless occasion, having no apparent connection with the man, save as one of life’s grim jokes designed to make us think.… In the airless hall and communicating rooms of the funeral parlor were a few spindly poinsettias.… The casket was open, and the suave funeral director ushered us up to it. All the lines of living had gone from Fitzgerald’s face.… His clothes suggested a shop window.

We sat on stiff chairs in the overlit room as friends and relatives arrived in twos and threes—the Murphys, the Perkinses, the Obers… Ludlow Fowler, John Biggs, Zelda’s brother-in-law Newman Smith—twenty or thirty in all. At the last, there was a flurry of boys and girls—Scottie’s friends on their way to or from some party.… The coffin was closed. The roll of a carpet sweeper was heard gathering stray leaves and petals, and then the voice of the clergyman droning the Protestant burial. It was as if nothing were being said of him or to him that the heart could hear.

Afterwards, we drove to the cemetery in the rain.42

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