Reading Notes, Part B: Gold-Tree & Silver-Tree cont.

To elaborate on the story: an outline from beginning to end

Gold-Tree = Goldie

Silver-Tree = Sylvia

The King = Harold

Prince = Parker

2nd wife = Amelia? (I may take her out of the story completely - though it would've made for great revenge in killing the mother)

• Goldie is an only child raised her whole life by her father who is a single dad.  
• She is a good daughter that listens and he is a father that understands.  The perfect duo.
• Her mother died when she was born so it's foreign for her, for her father (Harold) to be with someone as he never really kept up with dating.  

• Parents were teen parents.  
• Goldie is only 18 and going off to college.  
• The college is nearby, but Goldie is still worried about Harold being alone because she will be super busy with work and school, hardly being home.  
• Few years pass and she is 21; she will graduate with her Bachelor's the next year.
• Harold meets someone (Sylvia) while Goldie is in school and a romance blossoms.  
• Goldie is unsure of her, but approves of her.

• Sylvia notices how Harold is always spoiling Goldie and taking pride in her.
• Harold is saddened that she may be going away and doesn't know how to let her go.  (Maybe keep this in the story or not)
• He doesn't want to let her go so he tries to keep her around but Sylvia is beginning to get jealous and outraged.

Rather than beauty being the envy, she will be envious of her charm and good nature towards her father.

• Harold & Sylvia have been together for 2 years and then get married.
• Goldie, 22, has already graduated and is working, but still deciding on Graduate school.
• Sylvia grows impatient with Goldie and tries to convince her to leave....(not sure how this will play out?)
• All the while, Goldie met someone (Parker) & they had been dating since she was 20?

(Silver/Icy tree.  Flickr.)

• Unsure whether to utilize her going to Grad school as an escape or her marriage to Parker, maybe even the revenge portion.
• (I may just keep the 2nd woman) Sylvia tries to ruin her relationship with Parker and make her seem like a bad girl to her father by having a woman (Amelia) interfere with the relationship.

Still VERY unsure about how this could play out by the time Goldie and Amelia find out Sylvia's plan.  Also unsure about the plan that could come into play - or rather than Amelia and rather than ruining the relationship, Sylvia will pay Parker to take Goldie away.  Goldie could get upset and try to tell her father and just take him away with her. 

Somehow Harold needs to find out what has been happening - but when, where and how...

Maybe involves Harold dying so Goldie can avenge him by killing Sylvia...with a gun?  There's a lot to fill in...

Bibliography:  Celtic Fairy Tales:  Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree by Joseph Jacobs.