Date of Award
Spring 2012
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
Program/Concentration
Creative Writing
Committee Director
John McManus
Committee Member
Sheri Reynolds
Committee Member
Janet Peery
Call Number for Print
Special Collections; LD4331.E64 O78 2012
Abstract
The six stories collected in A World for Wanters deal primarily with loneliness and isolation, usually that which accompanies a sudden or traumatic life change, as well as the identity crises that arise when an individual's sense of his place in society is disrupted. Each of these stories, narrated in the first person by a young male protagonist, explores the struggle to reconcile a worldview in which alienation is ordinary and unavoidable with the desire to love and be loved by others.
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DOI
10.25777/v0x9-pp33
Recommended Citation
Ortiz, Andrew L..
"A World for Wanters"
(2012). Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/v0x9-pp33
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/367