Shreve, Susan R.Mead, Allyson Elizabeth2016-02-222016-02-222016-02-22https://hdl.handle.net/1920/10075This thesis is a fictional piece meant to explore the mentality of a seventeen-year-old girl in a relationship with a twenty-four-year-old male in modern day Mississippi. Through describing a trip taken to the beach in Biloxi, Mississippi, the location is explored in terms of tourist attractions as well as atmosphere while the story remains focused on a plot involving the seventeen-year-old starting to recognize flaws in her previously idolized partner, which are only exacerbated when he proposes to her on the last night of their trip. This thesis is a character-driven novella meant for new adult readers.enCopyright 2015 Allyson Elizabeth MeadFictionCharacterYoung adultNovellaThesis