Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Goodwin, Marie Dufour
Author's Email Address	mgoodw2@lsu.edu
URN	etd-0418102-153143
Title	Men, Women, and Children
Degree	Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Department	English
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Moira Crone Committee Chair
Keywords	relationship fiction
Date of Defense	2002-04-10
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract All of my fiction has to do with relationships. I suspect this is true of most creative writers, but in my place this broad theme takes precedence over other creative aspects of writing, such as language. While I would not call my prose minimalist, I have tried to set down my short stories in a plain rather than an involved or noticeably poetic idiom. As for the three-tiered division into “Men,” “Women,” and “Children,” the stories themselves naturally fell into these three categories, depending on the main, point-of-view character. I found it enthralling to change the authorial voice to conform to the story. It has been an interesting exercise to think my way into the minds of characters who differ from myself in gender and/or age. My ultimate goal, of course, is a synthesis of human experience as I see it. As we pursue our lives as men and women, and children of both sexes, we are all ultimately subsumed under the rubric “human beings.” I hope both my characters and I have arrived at better ways to be human and humane.
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