Johnny Mack Brown: Creative Writings
9 Pages Posted: 12 Apr 2007
Abstract
A young girl in a Texas town imagines that she is the movie cowboy Johnny Mack Brown. He is her ideal of perfection, someone who was a football hero and then the star of movies about a cowboy who stands up for good things. She tells her mother she is Johnny Mack Brown and denies her mother's suggestion that it's only pretend. She wears a scarf like the ones Johnny Mack Brown wore in movies. Assigned at school to write about a "rainy day," she tells about leaving a wet ball outside and coming inside to play with her brother's train. Later, she becomes an associate in a large New York law firm, discovers the importance of gender conformity in a "corporate" setting, and realizes that our small towns indulge us more than we know. In long nights working with other associates and legal assistants to produce corporate documents, she imagines herself wearing a scarf and working with a generous spirit with her colleagues. Her vision of Johnny Mack Brown redeems her work and yields inner riches, while complicating her life as an associate in a New York law firm.
Keywords: gender, associate, leveraged buy out, triangular merger, Christmas, electric train, law firm, New York, identity, New York law firm, honor, South Texas, football, hero, Harvard Law School, partnership, power, sexual dance, conference room, human capital, Anita Hill, Rhodes scholar, sports, women
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