Elder Brown’s Backslide TITLE OF SOURCE: AUTHOR'S NAME - FIRST: LAST: DESCRIPTION: Visual Text A farmer’s wife sends the farmer off to market with a very specific shopping list...but gets lured in by the local tavern instead. When he finally arrives home in a drunken stupor after having lost the mule, his wife forgives him. COMMENTS: Visual Text This story is fairly backwards in its treatment of alcoholism (and the wife's forgiveness of it), and doesn't really stand the test of time. You might possibly turn the story inside out as a cautionary tale, but there are stronger PLOTS out there if you're interested in exploring either alcoholism or forgiveness. CANDIDATE FOR ADAPTATION?: --- not set --- Not reviewed Promising Unlikely SOURCE MATERIAL: Fable Novella Play Plot summary Short Story -- Parent -- GENRE: Comedy Comic Horror Detective Drama Fable Fairy Tale Fantasy Folklore Folktale Ghost Story Melodrama Mystery Myth Operetta Other Romance Suspense Young Audiences -- Parent -- SETTING: Africa America England Europe Fantasy International New Zealand Pastoral Rural Rustic Science Fiction -- Parent -- LENGTH FOR ADAPTATION: 10 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes Two Hours -- Parent -- URL FOR PDF DOCUMENT: ElderBrownsBackslide.pdf
