Tomorrow Will Be Better

by Betty Smith | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
Registered by Marti-Hart of Aiken, South Carolina USA on 6/23/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by Marti-Hart from Aiken, South Carolina USA on Saturday, June 23, 2007
This book wasn't quite as good as "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", but I enjoyed it almost as much. This one is about Margie, a young girl growing up in poverty in Brooklyn in the early 1900's, a theme that runs through most of Betty Smith's books. Margie is not treated well by her angry and spiteful mother and that is the backdrop of her life as she grows older and her circumstances improve somewhat with education. We meet the 17-year old Margy in a recurring nightmare in which she is abandoned by her mother as a child. She finds herself in terror, on a dead-end street with huge iron gates blocking the end. At sixteen Margy quits school and takes her first job as a mail-order correspondent. It is here that she meets her boss, Mr. Prentiss, whose mother is over-protective of him, although Margy likes him alot and he for her, nothing comes of it. Margy marries Frankie, a man she doesn't love, but they both want escape from their families. Even though both sets of parents try to destroy the marriage, Frankie and Margy marry and set up housekeeping on a limited budget. As typical in that time, Margy quits her job and although neither she nor Frankie love each other, she gets pregnant with a baby girl. Frankie isn't thrilled and Mr. Prentiss enters the picture again toward the end of the book.


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