Thursday, December 21, 2006
A lucky woman
In addition to her witty commercial jingles that kept her family fed and clothed, Evelyn had a lot of help along the way — the grocery store manager who let her take two clerks on her shopping spree, the bank accepting written word of her contest win versus the payment due to keep her house, and I got the impression that at least one of the contest "detectives" who visited was glad to award the prize to the family in need. I couldn't decide what made her so fortunate — would she be treated so kindly today? But I also thought she had this contagious sense of benevolence, and maybe it rubbed off on other people besides her family. Sort of an "It's a Wonderful Life" kind of person.
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Yeah, I definitely had that sense. I think a lot of it was just her undauntable personality (compared with the defeated personality of Kelly, who seemed to have surrendered very young to a tragic sense of life). Plus, people in that town saw what she was up against: poverty, a drunken, emotionally unavailable, high-maintenance husband, 10 kids to look after. It would be the hard heart that wasn't rooting for her. She certainly imbued her children with an almost holy appreciation of life and its joys.
Yeah, good points. Part of it was probably the 1950s small town, where everybody knew and trusted everybody else. But part of it was her personality and spirit, which endeared everyone to her, and her willingness to ask for help when she needed it.
cl, on this theme, I just remembered that Evelyn was also the only person in the world that the crazy rooster wouldn't bite. Her goodness was that contagious. Hehe
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