San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Master's Theses Master's Theses and Graduate Research Fall 2020 A Silicon Valley Life: A Silicon Valley Love Story Sharon Simonson San Jose State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_theses Recommended Citation Simonson, Sharon, "A Silicon Valley Life: A Silicon Valley Love Story" (2020). Master's Theses. 5162. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31979/etd.7rng-wemc https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_theses/5162 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Master's Theses and Graduate Research at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. A Silicon Valley Life: A Silicon Valley Love Story A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of English and Comparative Literature San José State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Fine Arts by Sharon Simonson December 2020 © 2020 Sharon Simonson ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Designated Thesis Committee Approves the Thesis Titled A Silicon Valley Life: A Silicon Valley Love Story by Sharon Simonson APPROVED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY December 2020 Cathleen Miller, MFA Department of English Selena Anderson, MFA, Ph.D. Department of English Revathi Krishnaswamy, Ph.D. Department of English ABSTRACT A SILICON VALLEY LIFE: A SILICON VALLEY LOVE STORY by Sharon Simonson In the last three decades, Silicon Valley has become one of the world’s most watched and imitated communities. Daily news reporters, long-form journalists, cinema and television-programming producers have crafted a public image, but it represents nothing of the lives of hundreds of thousands of Valley residents.