Big Me (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dan Chaon
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: Beck, a small town in Nebraska
- Principal Characters: Andy O’Day, His father, His mother, Mark O’Day, His wife, Louis Mickleson
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Children, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Mistaken or secret identity, Brothers and sisters, 1980’s, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Domestic violence, Fear, Time travel, Fathers, Divorce, Fantasy, Small-town life, Truthfulness and falsehood, Fate or fatalism, Boys, Nebraska
- Locales: Nebraska
The Story
“Big Me” is a first-person narrative, in which thirty-two-year-old Andy O’Day describes an odd series of events that happened when he was twelve years old, the year before his parents’ marriage broke up. Andy explains that he has always been a dreamy child, living in a fantasy world.
In real life, the twelve-year-old Andy's parents run a bar in the small town of Beck, Nebraska, which has a population of fewer than two hundred people. To Andy, though, Beck is an imaginary town of two million, and he is the detective, protecting his city from crime. In...
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