Residents and Transients (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bobbie Ann Mason
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century
- Setting: A small town in Kentucky
- Principal Characters: Mary, Stephen, Larry
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Husbands, United States or Americans, Wives, Twentieth century, Rural or country life, Midwest, Cats, Farms, farmers, or farming, Adultery
- Locales: Kentucky
The Story
Mary, the thirty-year-old narrator, has moved back to her hometown in Kentucky after being away at college for several years. She has returned to Kentucky to care for her parents; after they retire to Florida, she and her husband, Stephen, move into their old farmhouse. Mary loves the land and the stately old farmhouse that “rises up from the fields like a patch of mutant jimsonweeds.” Because her mother cannot bear to think of moving her things out of the house herself, she has left Mary in charge of selling the house and their belongings.
When Stephen...
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