Experience
Title
Experience
Description
In this story, Elizabeth has just lost her beloved husband and is riddled with pain and suffering from the loss. She goes to visit Miss Gurney, whom she has always admired. Miss Gurney, we learn, first took care of her mother who was injured after a fall from a three, and then of her father, immobilized for the past 10 years after a wagon accident. The father died at age 91 only the winter before. Elizabeth asks of Miss Gurney: "When things happen to people, how can they stand to go on living? Why don't they simply die?" Miss Gurney gives her a thoughtful reply.
Creator
Suckow, Ruth
Source
CHILDREN AND OLDER PEOPLE - Suckow's short story collection offers characteristic glimpses of small-town Iowa life and skillful use of local color and psychological penetration.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, 1931
Date
1929
Rights
Copyright held by Barbara Camamo, niece and Literary Executor of the Suckow estate. Downloading for nonproft, educational use only.
Format
15 page short story
Type
document
Digital Reproduction Information
Scanned on Epson 10,000 scanner, 5.98 MB
Repository
Ruth Suckow Memorial Association
Contact information.
File Name
Experience_OCR.pdf
Digital item created
2014-08-026
Digital item modified
2014-09-18