Greyhound People (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Adams
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1970's
- Setting: Northern California
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Hortense
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Self-discovery, Traveling or travelers, Divorce, Paranoia, Buses
- Locales: California
The Story
Nothing extraordinary happens on the first or any of the subsequent bus rides that the narrator takes between her home in San Francisco and her job in Sacramento, a fact that makes her attitude toward buses and the people on them even more puzzling and interesting. She is never accosted or threatened. Her worst experience is being asked, on her first ride, to move out of a seat claimed by a burly black man: She moves, and the incident is over.
However, the narrator is a study in paranoia. In the first of the eleven unnumbered sections of the story, the narrator...
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See Also:
Alice Adams (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Alice Adams (Short Fiction)Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
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