Same Place, Same Things (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tim Gautreaux
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1930's
- Setting: A farm in Louisiana
- Principal Characters: Harry Lintel, Ada
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Wives, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, 1940’s, Despair, Farms, farmers, or farming, Accidents, Death or dying, Small-town life, Widows or widowers, Louisiana, Happiness, Boredom
- Locales: Louisiana
The Story
“Same Place, Same Things” is told in the third-person limited point of view from the perspective of traveling pump-and-well-repairman Harry Lintel. Harry first encounters Ada on her small farm outside a small town in Louisiana. Despite Harry's uneasiness with her, Ada sees Harry as her salvation from a life she finds dull and unsatisfactory. When Harry realizes how desperate for change Ada really is and how far she has gone in her quest to move on, he understands that he has reached a certain contentment in his own life, one that she will never know.
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