Date of Award

1-1-2016

Language

English

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

College/School/Department

Department of English

Content Description

1 online resource (ii, 71 pages)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Helen Elam

Committee Members

Martha Rozett, Edward Schwarzschild

Keywords

Fiction, Short Story, Minimum wage, Young adults, Cashiers, Man-woman relationships, Working class, American fiction

Subject Categories

English Language and Literature

Abstract

This story is about Sam and Oran, who are two lower class people entering adulthood and gaining fiscal independence by working as cashiers at a large store. They are struggling to accept their respective childhoods and trying to make peace with the way people are or at least appear to be. They cope with the difficulties of their loneliness, limited resources and troublesome interactions with various meditative activities. Still, they cannot escape the tension between their internal and external environments

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