Stan was strongly influenced by his Southern Christian upbringing. Under the pressures of family and career he attempts to simplify his life by taking a job teaching at a small college in Tifton Georgia. He needs Tifton to provide that stereotypical small town lifestyle that he had always believed to exist even though he had never observed it. As that illusion and his marriage both evaporate he begins to realize that there is a discrepancy between his Southern Christian values and how his keen s