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Florida Pure Lauren A Florida International University FIU Digital Commons FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations University Graduate School 2-28-2006 Florida Pure Lauren A. Doyle Florida International University DOI: 10.25148/etd.FI15101223 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd Part of the Fiction Commons Recommended Citation Doyle, Lauren A., "Florida Pure" (2006). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3236. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3236 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the University Graduate School at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Miami, Florida FLORIDA PURE A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF FINE ARTS in CREATIVE WRITING by Lauren A. Doyle 2006 To: Interim Dean Mark Szuchman College of Arts and Sciences This thesis, written by Lauren A. Doyle, and entitled Florida Pure, having been approved in respect to style and intellectual content, is referred to you for judgment. We have read this thesis and recommend that it be approved. John Dufresne Bruce Harvey Lynne Barrett, Major Professor Date of Defense: February 28, 2006 The thesis of Lauren A. Doyle is approved. Interim Dean Mark Szuchman College of Arts and Sciences Interim Dean Stephan L. Mintz University Graduate School Florida International University, 2006 ii DEDICATION For my parents, with love and gratitude iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks, especially, to Lynne Barrett, for whose wisdom and support I am forever grateful. Luckily, I will never know what might have happened had she not been involved. Thanks also to John Dufresne, Bruce Harvey, Les Standiford, Dan Wakefield, Denise Duhamel and Campbell McGrath whose work and ideas are a constant source of inspiration. Thanks to my friends and readers: Cindy Kmiecik, Dan Lyons, Jennifer Welch, Diane Mooney and, especially, Elizabeth Vondrak, who threw me a rope when I needed one. Thanks also to Alex Aversa. And to my family for their love, encouragement and support. I owe my grandparents, Herb and Elaine MacLellan, an enormous amount of gratitude for giving me a place to stay, a room to work, and lots of material for the next one. Thanks, especially, to Chris Owens, my jumping, screaming, pompom shaking cheerleader; I owe you everything but I hope you'll settle for more of the same. iv ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS FLORIDA PURE by Lauren A. Doyle Florida International University, 2006 Miami, Florida Professor Lynne Barrett, Major Professor FLORIDA PURE is a satiric novel set in the orange juice industry of contemporary Florida that begins when the deaths of four migrant workers lead to the demise of the orange juice company, Florida Pure. The novel follows three plot lines that result from this demise. The company's fallen president has to cope with the loss of the company as well as the more recent loss of his wife, who has left him for the governor of Florida. A former Florida Pure trucker purchases an orange grove to make juice "honestly." And three brothers from Brazil seek to destroy the orange crop as a way of boosting global orange prices, which have fallen as a result of decreased juice demand. Light in tone, the narrative works to reflect the absurdity of modem life through themes of greed, social corruption, and the notion of destiny. v TABLE CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Foreword ..................................................................................................... Friday .................................................................. ................................... Saturday ................ ............................. ................................................ 2 Monday .................................. .......................................................... Chapter 1 ................ .............................................................................. 4 Chapter 2 ..................................................................................................... Chapter 3 ... .......... ................... .................................... ............ 15 Chapter .................................................................. ................. 22 Chapter 5 ..................................................................... ........................ 27 Chapter 6.. .... ...................................................................................... 28 Chapter 7 ..... ............ ...................................................................... 3 Chapter 8 ......................................................................... .................. 6 Chapter 9... ... ................................................................................ 39 Chapter 10 ............................. ......................................................... 41. Chapter 11 ............................................................................................. 46 Chapter 12 ............................................................................. ....... ....... 4 Chapter 13 ............................................. ............................................. 55 Chapter 1 .......................................................................................... 64 C hapter 1 ..... .............. .............................. ................................... 7 1 C hapter 1 .............................. .... ............................................ ...... 75 Chapter 17 ................ ......................................................................... 77 i Chapter 1 8 ............................................................................... .......... 81 Chapter 19 ............................................................................................ 7 Chapter 20 ......... ................................................................................. 92 Chapter 21 ............................................................. .. ............................ 9 Chapter 22 ................................................................. ........................ 101 C hapter 23 .............................. ........................................ ................. 109 Chapter 24 ................................. ............................................................ 114 Chapter 5..... ........................................................................................... 125 Chapter 26 ................................................................................................ 130 Chapter 27 ...... ....................................................................................... 140 Chapter 28.......... ............ ...................................................................... 143 C hapter 29... .......... ...... .... .......................................................... 146 Chapter 30 ............................................................................................... 153 Chapter 1 ............. 158 Chapter 32 ........................................... ................................................... 162 Chapter 33 ....................................................... ...... ............................ 171 Chapter 4 ............................................................ .... ........................... 172 Chapter 35 ............................................................. ................................. 179 Chapter 36 ........ :............................................ ...................................... 183 Chapter 37 .............. .............................................................................. 1 7 Chapter 38 . ....... ........... .... .. ....................................................... 1 89 Chapter 9...... ... .................................... ............................. ................ 191 Chapter 4 ..................................................... .......... ... ........ ............ 195 vii Chapter 1 ................................................................................................ 19 Chapter 42 ................................... :.............................................................202 a ter ......... .................... ........... .........................................I 206 Chapter 44 ...... ........... .......................................................................... 208 Chapter 45 .................. ............................................ a.............,...................210 viii Foreword Henry Sanford's family sold brass. They made their fortune through war - turning their brass into shells for rifles during what some called the War of Northern Aggression, and what the Sanfords called the Civil War. When the war ended, the Sanford 's fortune declined. Henry moved to Florida in 1870 and bought 12,500 acres on Lake Monroe, just north of what is now Orlando. He planted sugar, and the entire crop burned to the ground. He planted cotton, which was eaten, completely, by caterpillars. Then, in a last-ditch effort, Henry Sanford planted oranges, and his oranges flourished. 1 Friday Traffic. The first of April. Rain came down in gray-white curtains. Torrents of rain. Rain so hard it seemed the world was made of rain and rain only. Raindrops the size of your fist. And traffic. Traffic like a snarled red hook all the way out to the turnpike. An accident on the Bee Line: a van carrying
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