First Advisor

Thomas Doulis

Term of Graduation

Summer 1995

Date of Publication

6-19-1995

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.) in English

Department

English

Language

English

DOI

10.15760/etd.6826

Physical Description

1 online resource (2, 139 pages)

Abstract

My thesis consists of seven short stories, works of fiction, each of which deals with one or more aspects of human emotional suffering. Most of the stories attempt to examine the lives of either young or middle-aged men who have come from broken families. A number of these men have witnessed in their parents the ravages of alcoholism and yet they themselves have fallen--or are at risk of falling--prey to an identical atavistic fate. Religious faith, whether it be ecclesiastic or secular, plays a key role in their lives, to the extent that none of them have it.

Wanting to believe, however, that life consists not only and entirely of despair, I offer in several of these stories what I hope to be plausible depictions of a single character electing to take at least one small step out of and away from suffering and self-recrimination, toward redemption, although that redemption ought always to be thought of as limited, cyclic in nature, contingent at best.

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