Rose and Ginny would play in this closet as children. Ginny recalls her mother’s closet, full of shoes, dresses, and corsages, a history of high school and one year of college. Try watching both of these films again with an eye to the whole picture. Summary: Chapter 29 Ginny recalls her mother Ann and Ann’s devotion to her husband, family, and house, as well as her intolerance of damaging anything in it. Another film with these characteristics is the "Bridges of Madison County". Perhaps, Jane Smiley did mean for us to see beyond the superficial into the world these people had to live, but viewers are so caught up in the "Hollywood" aura of the individual actors that they miss a rich layout of a lifestyle that exists less and less as each decade passes. The farm families of Iowa are so intimately inter-related as they are in the area of Indiana where I grew up in the 40's and 50's that I immediately recognized the back-stories and motives behind the characters. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A powerful and poignant twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeares King Lear (The New York Times Book Review). Without the burden of having to focus intently on each character, learning their quirks and foibles, allowed me to focus on the cultural issues laid out in the film. I got a whole different viewpoint out of the film. I watched this movie, having never read the book, and took the characters at face value, but having already been introduced to them, watched it again recently. Jane Smiley notes that her novel A Thousand Acres was precipitated by a few accidents.
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