You’re Ugly Too (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Marie Lorena Moore
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: Paris, Illinois, and New York City
- Principal Characters: Zoë Hendricks, Evan, Charlie, Earl
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, New York, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Twentieth century, New York City, Midwest, 1980’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Sisters, Single people, Loneliness, Career women, Illinois, Isolation, Tumors, Halloween, Dating
- Locales: New York, NY, Illinois
The Story
“You’re Ugly Too” is told in the third person through the perspective of Zoë Hendricks, a single woman in academia seemingly doomed to a series of unrewarding relationships with the opposite sex. Her situation is a common one for professional women, and the story would be simply depressing if not for Zoë's wry sense of humor. When she visits her sister in New York City, she meets another single man, who turns out to be the epitome of men incapable of true intimacy.
Zoë lives in an Illinois town, incongruously named Paris, where she teaches history at a...
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