CORRIE

Characters:

• Corrie – The protagonist
• Howard Ritchie – An architect
• Sadie Wolfe – nurse to corrie’s father

Plot Summary :

                        The story opens with the introduction of the protagonist, Corrie by her father, to an architect, who gets an opportunity to work on the church.  He was named Howard Ritchie.  Howard was a married man with children and was none too impressed with either Carlton’s home nor their demeanor .  after dinner, Corrie takes him to look over the grounds of their grand home and Howard notices she is “lame in one leg.”  Corrie explains that she had a polio and the same disease that had killed her mother.  Howard is attracted by her frankness and humor.  She seems to be mysterious.  She remarks about an upcoming trip. She’s taking to Egypt.

                        Corrie sends numerous postcards to Howard’s Office.  She did not, after all, have his personal address.  A short time later.  Howard makes an unnecessary trip to Corrie.s town and he visits Corrie.  He discovers that Corrie’s father has had a stroke and the family brought in a young nurse named Sadie Wolfe to help Corrie.  Corrie becomes more reserve after the death of her father.  Howard took over her when he came.  The story makes a great twist from the description of the nurse duty to Howard and Corrie in bed together.  Corrie says about a piano teacher who takes advantage of in her youth.  She states she is not a Virgin.  Howard produces a condom for their escapade and made her realize that he is not a “regular seducer”.  Their begins an affair between both.  Their affair is discovered by a maid and she blackmailed them.  Corrie was twenty-six years old and her father expects her to frow into a Spinster.  But she dislikes this idea.  After a year, Corrie and h=Howard are able to continue their affair.  Corrie father has died and the maid has gone off to pursue other jobs.

                        Accidently, Howard met Sadie one evening while at a dinner party with his wife at the home of his close friend.  Sadie recognizes him as the man she had seen with Corrie.  The story set up with the blackmail.  Sadie decides to write a letter to Howard threatening him to tell his wife about his affair.  To keep her mouth shut she demands an offered payment.  Howard burns the letter as soon as he read it.  Howard shares the threatening of Sadie to Corrie.  She agrees to pay in cash in an envelope that Howard delivers to Sadie.  Corrie got bored she was hired at the Carnegie Library in town.  Howard engages Corrie out of his busy schedule with his wife and children.  While talking to the groundskeeper, she comes to know that their blackmailer for the year is dead.  Corrie plans to inform Howard though he is traveling.  She starts and restarts the letter a few times before she reached bed something becomes crystal clear to Corrie, that blackmailer is Howard himself: 

            “No news about Sadie, because Sadie doesn’t matter and she never did.  no post office box, because the money goes straight into an account or maybe just into wallet”.  The story ends openly with the dilemma, whether Corrie decides to leave him or to hide the death of Sadie. ‘she could say something that would destroy them, but she does not have