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A Diamond Guitar : ウィキペディア英語版 | A Diamond Guitar
"A Diamond Guitar" is a short story by Truman Capote, first published in ''Harper's Bazaar'' in 1950; it is noted as one of his better quality early short stories. The title refers to the prize possession of the younger man, a rhinestone-studded guitar; the guitar serves as the key image of the story.〔Long, Robert Emmet. ''Truman Capote, enfant terrible'' (New York: Continuum, 2008), page 78.〕 Capote wrote "A Diamond Guitar" in April 1950 during a three-week-long transatlantic freighter crossing from New York to Italy.〔Windham, Donald. ''Lost Friendships: A Memoir of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Others'' (William Morrow & Co, 1987), page 81.〕 It is one of three short stories normally published in the same volume as ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', first released in 1958. == Plot summary == The story is set in a prison in a rural area near Mobile, Alabama where convicts perform road work and farm turpentine from nearby pine forests. The two main characters are both convicts, Mr. Schaeffer, an older man serving a ninety-nine year sentence for murder, and Tico Feo, a newly arrived young man sentenced to serve two years for stabbing two men. Mr. Schaeffer and Tico form a fast bond that is simultaneously intimate and platonic. On Valentine's Day they agree to attempt an escape during the following day's work. Tico succeeds in getting away, but Mr. Schaeffer breaks his ankle in a shallow creek. Tico betrays Mr. Schaeffer's affections by not coming to his aid, but Mr. Schaeffer is given credit for trying to capture Tico and takes possession of the prized guitar.〔Gelfant, Blanche H. ''The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), page 186.〕
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