Miss Temptation

Miss Temptation
"Miss Temptation"
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Short story
Published in Saturday Evening Post, (1st edition)
Welcome to the Monkey House
Publication type Newspaper (1st edition)
Media type Print
Publication date 1956

"Miss Temptation" is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut, published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1956. The story was collected in Vonnegut's famous anthology Welcome to the Monkey House.

Plot summary

Miss Temptation's real name is Susanna, and she lives in a small room above a fire house, in a little town with a theater, in which she hopes to make her acting debut. Susanna is beautiful, exciting, and every man's dream. To those who gather in the country store to see her make her daily "entrance", she brings a rainbow to a dreary world. However, to Norman Fuller, a shy and lonely young man, her beauty is too much to bear. In an angry outburst at her, precipitated by years of rejection and hurt feelings from the female sex, he takes out his frustration against all pretty young women.

However, neither Fuller nor anyone else had realized just how fragile and vulnerable Susanna really is. She is alone in a new town, and no man her age will even go out of their way to be nice to her. Emotionally shattered by Fuller's outburst, Susanna decides to move out of her apartment, but on the day she is to leave, Fuller arrives at her door. After an emotionally draining conversation, Susanna forgives Fuller for his hurtful words, and the two end the night on friendlier terms.


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