Cowboys Are My Weakness (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Pam Houston
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Plot: Psychological, regional
- Time of Work: The early 1990's
- Setting: Montana
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Homer, Monte, David
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Rural or country life, West, U.S., Fantasy, Idealism, Single people, 1990’s, Ranches, ranchers, or ranching, Cowboys or cowgirls, Happiness, Dating, Montana
- Locales: Montana
The Story
An unnamed female narrator begins her story with a description of her romanticized picture of an ideal relationship, in which a woman has just kissed her bearded husband good-bye on their ranch. The narrator wishes she could paint the picture to see if she is the woman in the painting.
She has moved west from New Jersey and now lives in Colorado. She has always been attracted to cowboys and is involved with an emotionally distant wildlife specialist named Homer. Every year, Homer spends five weeks studying a herd of deer on a ranch in Montana, and this year the...
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