Monday, April 13, 2015

Skilless or Lazy?

When we first meed Anna she is touring with a theater company. At first she seems like a girl who is working hard to make a life for herself, but that view of her quickly changes. Once she meets Walter she becomes almost like a leech. She decides not to go back on tour because she has Walter to pay for everything. Her land ladies throughout the novel seem to always complain about her and often eventually kick her out for one reason or another. Often they don't agree with Anna's lifestyle, the way that she treats her landladies like servants, or how she keeps her room. Anna seems to take this in stride, not really caring and just finding a  new place to live. She is happy as long as she has a man paying her way, but once she is on her own she sulks. She complains about being tired all the time, stays in bed late, and makes no effort to pay her own way. Often she doesn't even find her new man on her own. Usually one of her friends introduces them. Even once Anna is living with Ethel ans supposed to be helping with the business she does as little as she can, and again Ethel gets fed up and she is sent away yet again. Once she is pregnant she continues to leech off of others. She stays with Laurie, who finds her the woman to perform the abortion, she gets the money from her first man, Walter and his brother. The last part was slightly confusing, and I had to re-read it, but one thing that was clear was that right up to the end of the book she is relying on others to help her.

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