Gilded Donut

gilded: (adj) having a pleasing or showy appearance that conceals something of little worth

In the spirit of Harford 3C, the English suite from last year, I wanted to point out the correlation between my life and a book I'm reading for class.

Mark Twain's The Gilded Age features a great deal of false impressions of grandeur. For instance, meagre dinners are said to be made of rare and imported ingredients and stage coaches rush merrily through towns, just to trudge lamely again through the countryside.

And today, a seemingly perfect jelly-filled donut was smuggled from the dining hall without my prior knowledge that it contained NO JELLY. I was utterly fooled, and horribly disappointed when I reached the end of the pastry without having encountered the lovely fruit filling, as had been expected. I ate a gilded donut.