Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Die fröhliche Kokarde
Für wen es gedacht ist
Readers who like romance with a wry smile, vivid clothes and candlelit rooms, and tales that end with a turn of the heart. Anyone who enjoys short stories in the old magazine style will feel at home.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
The Gay Cockade is a collection of short stories by Temple Bailey, an American writer whose work appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Scribner's, Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post. The tales are set in the years around the First World War, in Washington, Virginia, Nantucket, California and the small towns between. Each one is a self-contained romance, and each asks what people really want from love and from life.
You meet a young poet and the wife who pushes him toward fame, a woman who meets a Viking-blooded stranger, and a dying wife torn between two men. You meet a soldier who plays Napoleon, a ruined gentleman who plays Santa Claus, and a sandwich seller who wins a town. Bailey writes with warmth and humor, and she likes to end on a surprise of the heart. Let us begin with the first story, where a clerk named Jimmie Harding walks into a tired government office.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1Youth, ambition, and a wife's planFree
- 2A play, a heroine, and a rival
- 3A Viking, a cloak, and a girl in gray
- 4The letter and the doubts of a modern girl
- 5The storm that brings Olaf back
- 6A dying wife, a soldier, and a husband
- 7Stage heroes and quiet gifts
- 8Love, money, and what people really need
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Youth, ambition, and a wife's plan
The first story, The Gay Cockade, is told by Miss Standish, a government clerk who has grown tired and gray. Into her office comes Jimmie Harding, young and swaggering, who wears his youth like a bright plume. The whole office borrows his color. When he falls in love with a girl named Elise, the clerks follow the romance as if it were a play.
Elise tells Jimmie he can write, and she tells him he must leave the Department. They marry in April and settle in his old two hundred year old house in Albemarle, Virginia. Elise scrubs it bare and fills it with candles, old books and mahogany. She will not even take a honeymoon, because Jimmie must first sit down at his desk in the little house that was once his grandfather's office.
Miss Standish and her colleague Duncan Street visit in June, and she sees at once that Elise is far older in spirit than her years. Duncan thinks Elise will make Jimmie. Miss Standish fears that Jimmie will lose something of himself.
Years pass. Jimmie writes play after play and none is taken, so he writes novels and sketches that sell well. Gray creeps into his hair, and Elise keeps him at the grindstone.
The story asks what a person gives up in order to become great. It also shows how an onlooker can love someone's youth more than the person himself does.
The Christmas visit to Albemarle shows the strain. Jimmie reads a draft of his big play by the fire, and Elise sits at his feet in a flame colored dress. Miss Standish says it is not his masterpiece. Jimmie cries out that he wants to live, and Elise answers with a cold voice.
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Questions about Die fröhliche Kokarde
What is The Gay Cockade about?
It is a collection of short romantic stories by Temple Bailey. Each tale follows people in love, ambition or doubt, such as a poet and his driven wife, a woman drawn to a Viking-like yachtsman, and a dying wife choosing between two men.
What does the title The Gay Cockade mean?
A cockade is a bright knot of ribbon worn on a hat. In the title story, a young clerk named Jimmie Harding wears his youth like one, and the narrator suggests the name for his play.
Who is Sandwich Jane?
She is Jane, a red haired girl in the oil town of Tinkersfield, California, who sells homemade sandwiches to support her sick mother. She meets O-liver Lee, a bareheaded philosopher on fifteen dollars a week, and helps him in a town election.
When was The Gay Cockade written and where do the stories appeared first?
Temple Bailey wrote them in the years around the First World War, and they first appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Scribner's, Collier's, the Saturday Evening Post and Good Housekeeping before being collected.
Is The Gay Cockade easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that each story is short and self-contained, with lively dialogue, clear scenes and a strong turn at the end. You can read one tale at a time and still enjoy the whole.