#318 The Package- Kurt Vonnegut
Earl Fenton just sold the plant he spent his life building
and after spending months traveling the world, he comes home to his brand new
state of the art home, the whole package.
He wasn’t always rich however, he was the poorest of his
college fraternity brothers. He wasn’t “exactly behind the door when they
passed out looks and brains.”
“No—but when they passed out money, they handed me a
waiter’s jacket and a mop.”
So, he has got a bit of a chip on his shoulders. When he
gets a call suddenly from one of his wealthier Frat brothers, he sees it as a
great opportunity for a little bragging. But as he starts showing off the
opulence and grandness of his life, he doesn’t get the satisfying jealousy and
envy he wished for…and that deepens the resentment he has unfairly held for
Charley the last forty years.
It turns out that Charley isn’t exactly the person Earl
thinks he is, but that chip on his shoulder is hard to remove after all these
years.
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