traveling man

Yet neither “Coat of Many Colors” nor “My Tennessee Mountain Home” forsakes writerly imagination for the sake of diaristic realism — see the former’s frisky “Traveling Man,” about a love triangle between a mother, a daughter and the busy salesman who keeps knocking on their door.

A romance novel vs. the LIV golf tour: In the novel, a traveling man gives his heart; in the other, he sells his soul.

All of them showcase the refinement and evolution of Parton's craft from the comic representations of sexuality in Traveling Man, where a young girl falls in love with her travelling man only for him to abandon her for her mother, to the evocative pastoral imagery of the mountain landscape where she grew up in "Early Morning Breeze" and "My Blue Tears."

Historically it was used so that a traveling man could have a temporary wife when away from his family for many months or even years.

In time, he is expected to become a traveling man, journeying thousands of miles to take up residence on another continent, in another country.