Honors Theses
Date of Award
2016
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
English
First Advisor
Tom Franklin
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
This collection of short fiction explores family, grief, and trauma from a variety of perspectives. Other themes spanning these five stories include parent-child bonds, addiction and recovery, and sexuality. Two pairs of stories (The Parents and The Painter, and Johnnie Walker and Staying Late, respectively) are linked in terms of character and setting; the middle story, Limits, is linked only tenuously to the last two stories through a common character. As stated in my introduction, I wrote each story on its own terms; I did not consider each story's placement in a collection until I had written and edited them all. Arranging these stories together, I have found a great deal of thematic overlap among them. I hope their placement in this collection gives the feeling of a cohesive body of work.
Recommended Citation
McCrory, Charles Ramsay, "The Person You're Waiting For: Stories" (2016). Honors Theses. 179.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/179
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