Rachael
Rachel (story)
"Rachel" is a novel by Erskine Caldwell about an adolescent couple in a town in the American South.
It originate from the collection "We are the living" (1933).
Plotsynopsis
Frank, the narrator and his girlfriend Rachel meets at the fire hydrant every evening since a couple of months. Frank does not know where Rachel lives since Rachales father do not approve boys. Rachels family is very poor, she wears the same dress it is very fragile.
Every evening they go either to the movie-theatre or the drugstore, Frank does not have money for both.
At the end of the summer, Frank got 5 dollars as a birthday present. During the day he thought what to do with the money and decided to go downtown with Rachael, something his mother opposed. During his daydreams, he got the task to help in the kitchen.
Almost at the time to meet Rachael, he remembered his task, sprinkle some white powder over the garbage can. He assumed it was rat poison and quickly sprinkled some over the garbage at the back gate and rushed to their meeting point.
On their way downtown Rachel got very thirsty and they stopped to get something to drink. In the drugstore Rachel collapsed and the clerk was rushing with a bootle of antidote. "I'm afraid it's too late," he said while Frank still didn't know what was happening. Then the clerk said she was poisoned, probably rat poison. A physician in the store examined Rachel while they tried to stomach pump her, but he said it was too late. She was dead.
An ambulance picked up Rachel but Frank was still in the store until closing.
On his way home he could only think of Rachales beauty and her, bending over the garbage can.
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