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Etd-04042014-151748.Pdf Automated Template A: Created by James Nail 2011 V2.02 Goodbye town By Kathryn Michelle Barber A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Mississippi State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English in the Department of English Mississippi State, Mississippi May 2014 Copyright by Kathryn Michelle Barber 2014 Goodbye town By Kathryn Michelle Barber Approved: ____________________________________ Becky Hagenston (Director of Thesis) ____________________________________ Michael P. Kardos (Committee Member) ____________________________________ Kelly Marsh (Committee Member) ____________________________________ Lara A. Dodds (Graduate Coordinator) ____________________________________ R. Gregory Dunaway Professor and Dean College of Arts & Sciences Name: Kathryn Michelle Barber Date of Degree: May 17, 2014 Institution: Mississippi State University Major Field: English Major Professor: Becky Hagenston Title of Study: Goodbye town Pages in Study: 173 Candidate for Degree of Master of Arts My collection of short stories is set in the fictional town of Lockswood Gap, Tennessee, and centers around the lives of four women. Through various points of view and story lengths, I interweave several story lines to span over a time period of about twenty years. Themes of change and regret are prevalent in these stories, as each of these four women must make, or refuse to make, choices that will impact their lives. I modeled my collection after Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, using individual short stories that share the same group of characters to tell a novel-length story. The ten stories included in my thesis will comprise about three-fourths of the novel, and I will add several more to it following my graduation. DEDICATION To my two biggest supporters, my mother and my uncle. I love you both. and “to the town my life has abandoned.” ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My sincerest thanks goes to my mother, who has been telling everyone since I was five that she would one day line her office walls with my novels, and to my uncle, who has read every word of every draft I’ve ever written—this project would never have succeeded without you two. Many thanks for the support given to me by my father; my sisters, Callie and Meredith; my “aunt and uncle,” Beeb and George; and my best girl, Mary Beth Ballinger (Day). Thank you to Becky Hagenston, for directing my committee; Dr. Michael Kardos, for cleaning up my creative messes; and Dr. Kelly Marsh for reading on my committee. Katelyn Bland-Clark and Robin Walden, thank you for being my original editors. Cody Quillen, thank you for taking me to the swinging bridge in Hiltons, Virginia that inspired numerous scenes in this novel, and for reading a hundred terrible drafts—I love you, Dawson Leery. An additional thanks to Isharah and Shane McCracken, for getting me to Wilmington; Vallie Lynn Watson, for her help and support; the editors of Cape Fear Review, for soliciting the first section of “Maybe Not Today” for their first edition; Mark Schwan and Kevin Williamson for creating characters that changed my life; and Jamie Perry and Jennifer Mullins-Tate, for being my high school English teachers, my coaches, my inspiration, and my friends. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION .................................................................................................................... ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................... iii LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................... vi CHAPTER I. THEMES OF CHANGE, REGRET, AND MEMORY IN SMALL TOWN TENNESSEE ............................................................................1 Primary Influence: Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad ....................4 Linked Stories: Memory and Connection ....................................................4 Point of View and Narration ........................................................................8 Other Influences ...............................................................................................10 Themes of Change and Regret in The Portrait of a Lady ..........................10 Large Casts: Bleak House ..........................................................................14 Character and Scene Development: Various Craft Texts ..........................19 Fictionalized Small Towns ........................................................................21 Conclusion .......................................................................................................23 Works Cited .....................................................................................................25 II. RIVERSIDE REHEARSAL ............................................................................26 III. THE FIFTEEN-YEAR LINE ..........................................................................42 IV. WILMINGTON, OFF-SCRIPT .......................................................................57 Kelsey with the Walk of Shame.......................................................................57 Seth with the Engagement Ring .......................................................................64 Nick with the Cigars ........................................................................................66 Logan, on Front and Grace, with All the Dreams ............................................69 Russ and Kelsey with the Mistakes and the Moon Pies ..................................72 V. THE MEAN REDS ..........................................................................................75 VI. ERIC PARKER’S DAUGHTER .....................................................................90 Woman Found Dead in Home .........................................................................90 iv Police Interview, November 13, 1998. ............................................................93 Local Missing Girl Found Dead in Pittsburgh Dumpster Behind Bar .............99 Man Enters Lockswood Gap Baptist Church with Rifle and Fires Shots ........99 VII. SNAPSHOTS: BY JACK ANDERSON .......................................................101 Your Brother’s Wedding................................................................................101 Tractor ............................................................................................................101 Braves Game, 1980 ........................................................................................101 Fried Corn ......................................................................................................102 Secret Habits ..................................................................................................102 Overheard .......................................................................................................103 The Baby Your Wife Gave Away ..................................................................103 State Championship, 2009 .............................................................................104 Just My Opinion .............................................................................................104 Five-Piece Dining Room Set .........................................................................104 VIII. THIS ROAD THAT LEADS TO NOWHERE .............................................105 IX. MAYBE NOT TODAY, MAYBE NOT TOMORROW ..............................121 I. Alyssa Whitman .........................................................................................121 II. Seth McCord .............................................................................................130 III. Nick McClellan ........................................................................................133 IV. Aaron Whitman .......................................................................................136 V. Logan Whitman.........................................................................................140 VI. Kelsey DeVinney Whitman .....................................................................148 X. UNDESERVED ELEGIES ............................................................................151 XI. THE ART OF LEAVING ..............................................................................163 v LIST OF FIGURES 1 Bleak House Characters .....................................................................................17 2 Goodbye Town Characters .................................................................................18 vi THEMES OF CHANGE, REGRET, AND MEMORY IN SMALL TOWN TENNESSEE “Things are always different than what they might be… If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.” --Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady Goodbye Town is a novel of linked short stories centered around four women living in the fictional town of Lockswood Gap, Tennessee, located near Chattanooga on the Tennessee-Georgia state line. The various stories span a time period of about fifteen years, tracking the similar struggles of Katie Cockerell, Jenna Anderson, Kelsey DeVinney Whitman, and Natalie Parker Whitman. Unlike the residents of most small towns found in fiction set in deep in the mountains, the 2,034 residents of Lockswood Gap are almost entirely upper-class and well-educated people, who simply seem to have a difficult time navigating their way out of their hometown. As Katie Cockerell’s husband tells his students at Lockswood Gap High School, there are
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