All Roads Lead Nowhere
In both "Sawdust" by Chris Offutt and "Hunting Husbands" by Jo Carson, we see characters willing to go to great lengths to try and get what they think they want in life. Nonetheless, they appear to be trapped in an endless cycle, and it appears for them as though all roads lead nowhere. Despite the effort each makes to try to escape the life given to them, the battle they are fighting is one in which they seem destined to lose.
"Sawdust" takes place in a small Appalachian community where people live very simple lives, and those who are born there rarely ever leave. "Sawdust" revolves around a young man named Junior who decides that he wants to try to pass the GED test, the equivalent to earning a high school degree. Junior feels that with passing the GED test, he will earn the respect of many throughout the community, and will have the qualifications needed to get a good job outside of the community. As we later find out, and to his surprise, quite the......
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