Traveler (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ellen Gilchrist
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: After World War II
- Setting: Mississippi
- Principal Characters: LeLe Arnold, Baby Gwen Barksdale, Fielding Reid
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Girls, United States or Americans, Teenagers, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Midwest, Swimming or swimmers, Obesity
- Locales: Mississippi
The Story
When LeLe Arnold, an Indiana high school student, is invited to spend the summer with her cousin Baby Gwen in Mississippi, she is thrilled. She was recently passed over in a cheerleader election because, she believes, she was regarded as somewhat overweight. She sees Mississippi as a place where she can start over and become a different and more popular person. Immediately on arrival she begins to work on her reputation by telling her cousin that she did make the cheerleading squad and the football team saw her off at the train station.
LeLe and Baby Gwen spend...
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