lo que son los prejuicios que había leído "frasco"
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| Thank you for the light |
Mrs. Hanson was a pretty, somewhat faded woman of forty, who sold corsets and girdles, travelling out of Chicago. For many years her territory had swung around through Toledo, Lima, Springfield, Columbus, Indianapolis, and Fort Wayne, and her transfer to the Iowa-Kansas-Missouri district was a promotion, for her firm was more strongly entrenched west of the Ohio.
Eastward, she had known her clientele chattily and had often been offered a drink or a cigarette in the buyer’s office after business was concluded. But she soon found that in her new district things were different. Not only was she never asked if she would like to smoke but several times her own inquiry as to whether anyone would mind was answered half apologetically with “It’s not that I mind, but it has a bad influence on the employees.”
seguir leyendo Thank You for the Light by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gracias por el fuego cuenta la historia de la señora Hanson, una venderdora de corsés y fajas en la cuarentena que se muda a una nueva ciudad donde no ven con buenos ojos su adicción al tabaco.
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Ella era viuda y no tenía parientes cercanos a los que escribir por
las noches, y ver más de una película a la semana le dañaba la vista,
así que fumar se había convertido en un importante signo de puntuación
en la larga frase que para ella suponía un día en la carretera"
Este relato que Scott Fitzgerald envió en 1936 a
The New Yorker acaba de ser publicado por la revista.
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