Why the title: Paperdolls & Cowboy Boots

The Significance of the Title

At the University of Utah, I took a series of American Literature classes, that covered the 1800s time period. During those classes I learned about the concept of “Cardboard Grasshoppers.” That term was somewhat of a trendy term in its day, for characters in books being flat with no dimension. It was coined by Henry James, or a critic of Henry James’s w…