Date of Award
2011
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract
The Glass Catamount is concerned with one James Frederick Curling, a young, up-and-coming senator from Delaware. As Curling moves up through his political party, suspicion of infidelity begins to rise to the surface as a woman from his past appears and claims to know intimate details about the senator. Her intentions are unknown, but as the senator's old friend and aide, Robertson Peters, finds himself drawn in by her stories, unsure if they are truth or fabrication, the longevity of the career of the senator, and possibly even his life, come into question. Themes of truth versus reality are dealt with throughout, and the act of sexual exploration and discovery is broken down and analyzed in the context of the senator's past and what he constructs as truth, whether it was always the way he claims or not. The glass catamount of the title is a symbol of the fragility and rarity of an understood self, appearing only briefly as it passes through the trees on its climb back up the mountain.
Extent
v, 103 p.
Recommended Citation
Slattery, Robert., "The Glass Catamount" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 417.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/417
Identifier
FADT3338857
Comments
by Robert Slattery.|Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011.|Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011.|by Robert Slattery.