Dressing Up for the Carnival

1st edition (publ. Random House Canada)

Dressing Up for the Carnival is a short story collection published in 2000 by Canadian author Carol Shields,^[1] which depicts 12 characters who live their lives through illusions.^{[citation needed]} The Carnival is a metaphor for life, and "dressing up" represents the stigmas each of the characters try to fit into.

Characters

The first character we get introduced to is Tamara. Tamara loves dressing up. She is a clerk-receptionist for the Youth Employment Bureau where she lives.

The second character we meet is Roger. Roger is 30 years old, and is of medium height. He is described to us as a burly divorcee. Roger is employed by the Gas Board in the place where he lives. In the story he is described as holding a mango and going to work, and while he is doing so, he is creating symbols and imagining things regarding or using the mango.

The third character or characters introduced in the story are the Borden sisters, Karen and Sue. The Borden sisters arrived back in town approximately a month ago from their skiing trip in Happy Valley. The Borden sisters both look and express the fact that they have recently been skiing. Much attention in this story is paid to the tags on the Borden sisters jackets that read: "I SKIED HAPPY MOUNTAIN".

The fourth character in this shory story is Wanda, an awkward woman who works at a bank under the supervision of Mr.Wishcourt, who is the bank manager. Mr.Wishcourt has recently had a baby boy named Samuel James, for whom he buys a baby carriage. Mr.Wishcourt asks Wanda to take the baby carriage to his house during work, because it will not fit in the back of his car. Wanda agrees, and while she is taking the carriage to Mr.Wishcourt's house, she feels as if she and the carriage are a single entity.

References

1. ^ Shields; Carol Shields, Penelope Lively (2008). The Stone Diaries. Penguin Group. p. 270. ISBN 0143105507. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ro6c5FN7bPsC&pg=PA270&dq=%22Dressing+Up+for+the+Carnival%22&hl=en&ei=sfRzTP3KCIOBlAeM5vXJCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFsQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22Dressing%20Up%20for%20the%20Carnival%22&f=false. 

This article about a collection of short stories is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · Categories: 2000 short story collections Books by Carol Shields Canadian short story collections Single-author short story collections Short story collection stubs Wikimedia Foundation. 2010. Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу Zitadelle Mainz Mint Records Presents the CBC Radio 3 Sessions Look at other dictionaries: The Paramount Theatre (Austin, Texas) — Infobox nrhp | name = Paramount Theater caption = The Paramount Theater in 2006 location = 713 Congress Ave Austin, Texas, USA nearest city = lat degrees = 30 lat minutes = 16 lat seconds = 10.19 lat direction = N long degrees = 97 long minutes …   Wikipedia The Red Shoes (film) — This about is about the 1948 film The Red Shoes . For other uses of the term, see The Red Shoes. Infobox Film name = The Red Shoes image size = 215px caption = original movie poster director = Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger producer = Michael… …   Wikipedia Carnival — For other uses, see Carnival (disambiguation). Carnival float in the Rosenmontag parade in Cologne, Germany …   Wikipedia Carnival in Denmark — The Danish word for carnival is Fastelavn . This is a Low Saxon (“Low German”) loanword imported from Northern Germany: Fastelavend [ˈfastl̩.ˌɒːvm̩t] , Fastelabend [ˈfastl̩.ˌɒːbm̩t] and Fastlaam (also spelled Fastlom ) [ˈfastl̩ɒːm] , related to… …   Wikipedia The War of the Worlds (radio) — The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air . It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the WABC Radio network. Directed and narrated… …   Wikipedia The Surreal Life — Format Reality Created by Cris Abrego Mark Cronin Rick Telles Country of origin United States …   Wikipedia The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas — Infobox Film name = The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas image size = caption = Promotional film poster director = Brian Levant producer = Bruce Cohen writer = William Hanna Joseph Barbera Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr.… …   Wikipedia Maltese Carnival — Carnival (Maltese: il Karnival ta Malta) has had an important place on the Maltese cultural calendar for just under five centuries, having been introduced to the Islands by Grand Master Piero de Ponte in 1535. It is held during the week leading… …   Wikipedia Cologne Carnival — The Dreigestirn, 2005 (virgin, prince and farmer) Crowds in Cologne on Rose …   Wikipedia List of characters in the Friday the 13th series — Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that consists of eleven slasher films, a television show, novels, and comic books. The main character in the series is Jason Voorhees, who drowned at Camp Crystal Lake as a boy due to the negligence …   Wikipedia 18+ © Academic, 2000-2024 Contact us: Technical Support, Advertising Dictionaries export, created on PHP, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, MODx. Mark and share Search through all dictionaries Translate… Search Internet Share the article and excerpts Direct link … Do a right-click on the link above and select “Copy Link”