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    A Study Guide for Heidi Julavits's "Marry the One Who Gets There First"
    A Study Guide for Heidi Julavits's "Marry the One Who Gets There First"
    A Study Guide for Heidi Julavits's "Marry the One Who Gets There First"
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    A Study Guide for Heidi Julavits's "Marry the One Who Gets There First"

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    A Study Guide for Heidi Julavits's "Marry the One Who Gets There First," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535828253
    A Study Guide for Heidi Julavits's "Marry the One Who Gets There First"

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      A Study Guide for Heidi Julavits's "Marry the One Who Gets There First" - Gale

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      Marry the One Who Gets There First

      Heidi Julavits

      1998

      Introduction

      Marry the One Who Gets There First subtitled, Outtakes from the Sheidegger-Krupnik Wedding Album, by Heidi Julavits, was first published in Esquire, in 1998. It was also published in The Best American Stories, 1999. The story is set in Stanley, Idaho, at a mountain lodge where a wedding is about to take place. It is a darkly comic tale about love and betrayal structured around the descriptions of thirty-six photographs. Julavits got the idea for this photo-based structure from a photo essay which featured pictures that were not included in people's final wedding albums. At the time, Julavits was also preparing for her own wedding and was all too aware of how wedding albums capture the unwavering cheer of the day. The less glamorous, at times irreverent, photos that were not considered worthy of inclusion in the albums gave Julavits the idea for her satirical story, which takes aim at the myths associated with romantic love and exposes some of the darker secrets of the not-so-happy couple.

      Author Biography

      Heidi Julavits was born in 1968, in Portland, Maine. Her mother taught English and her father was an attorney. As a child, Julavits excelled at mathematics but decided in ninth grade to concentrate instead on books and reading. She attended Deering High School in Portland and then Dartmouth College. After graduation from Dartmouth, she traveled in Asia, and on her return to the United States she settled in San Francisco, where she worked as a copywriter. During her twenties she worked at many jobs, including waitress, movie extra, fashion copywriter, and English teacher.

      When Julavits entered Columbia University's graduate writing program, she began writing short stories in earnest. She found it was a real challenge and that her first stories were thirty-five to forty pages long. She gradually learned how to cut them down to more manageable length,

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