Same Place, Same Things | Same Place, Same Things

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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

“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.

Same Place, Same Things | Same Place, Same Things

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