The Eighty-Yard Run (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: 1925-1940
- Setting: A Midwestern university and New York City
- Principal Characters: Christian Darling, Louise Tucker Darling
- Genres: Realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Values, Marriage, Depression, economic, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Unemployment or unemployed workers, City life, Colleges or universities, Sports, Football
- Locales: New York, NY, Midwest (U.S.)
The Story
The story opens with an arresting, vividly detailed description of an eighty-yard run made from scrimmage by Christian Darling, a football player at a Midwestern university. Immediately after the descriptive passage, the reader learns that Darling made the run during football practice in 1925, fifteen years earlier, and that the episode has been reconstructed in his mind as he stands on the same practice field, the site of his former triumph. Now thirty-five, Darling recalls and retraces his downhill course in life from that moment of triumph and promise.
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