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This 10 page paper provides an analysis of 'The story of a Marriage' by Andrew Sean Greer. This paper specifically looks at the topics of sexual orientation and race relations presented in the work. Bibliography lists 5 sources
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marriage. It is also the story of deceit and marital strife caused by the impacts of sexual orientation on the marital bonds between partners in this African American couple.
The story raises the question: How does sexual orientation impact the central themes and story of the novel, within the scope of race relations? The brief vignettes shared by
Pearlie Cook about her family and the conflicted identities in 1950s San Francisco lead the reader to the realization that no one may ever really know the person he or
she marries. The Story of a Marriage weaves a tale of how sexual orientation impacts the lives of many, especially when it is hidden in a marriage and a
racial culture that initially reject any challenges to heternormativity. Background Greer sets his story in San Francisco because it creates a distinct backdrop to the experiences of the
Cook family. Pearlie Cook and her husband Holland first met when they were youths in Kentucky, a place where their traditional values and family perspectives shaped their interactions. The
two met as African American youths in a traditional Southern culture, and their first kiss was Pearlies first and last until she met Holland again years later in San Francisco.
Holland was a shell of a soldier, sitting on a bench at the beach in San Francisco when Pearlie saw him and recognized him instantly. Hollands life and
experiences had been so distinctly shattered that he felt compelled to accept Pearlie advances. Pearlie clearly represented an earlier, more innocent time in his life. Greer recognized that
it was important to create a difference between the Holland that Pearlie knew in her childhood and the Holland that she married. The distinction is defined early in the
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