Conversations: A Graduate Student Journal of the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology Volume 1 | Number 1 Article 6 January 2013 “This Whole Quest for Love”: The Role of Narrative in The aB chelor Suzanne Shedd Abilene Christian University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/conversations Part of the Speech and Rhetorical Studies Commons Recommended Citation Shedd, Suzanne (2013) "“This Whole Quest for Love”: The Role of Narrative in The aB chelor," Conversations: A Graduate Student Journal of the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology: Vol. 1 : No. 1 , Article 6. Available at: https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/conversations/vol1/iss1/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Digital Commons @ ACU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Conversations: A Graduate Student Journal of the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ ACU. Conversations Vol. 1 No. 1 May 2013 “This Whole Quest for Love”: The Role of Narrative in The Bachelor Suzanne Shedd, M.A. Abilene Christian University Department of Language and Literature, Composition and Rhetoric Abstract Reality television has exploded into a popular culture phenomenon in recent years, and it is likely to remain a permanent media staple. With its spike in popularity, reality TV has attracted scholarly interest, but most of this attention focuses on audiences’ responses to and motivations for viewing these fact-based programs. This study, however, is more concerned with the rhetorical strategies employed in reality television that appeal to viewers and compel them to keep watching.