Charlotte (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tony Earley
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The early 1990's
- Setting: Charlotte, North Carolina
- Principal Characters: The narrator,, Starla, Lord Poetry, Bob Noxious, Rockin’ Robbie Frazier, Darling Donnis
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Poetry or poets, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, North Carolina, Good and evil, Truthfulness and falsehood, 1990’s, Basketball, Nostalgia, Wrestling
- Locales: North Carolina
The Story
“Charlotte” is told in the first person by an unnamed narrator who interweaves the story of a contest of strength and wills between two professional wrestlers for the affection of a woman with his own attempts to win an acknowledgment of the power and even existence of love from his girlfriend, Starla. At the same time, he ponders the nature of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, itself. He begins by describing how Charlotte has changed. Once a city ruled by its allegiance to professional wrestling, the city is now obsessed with its new professional basketball...
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