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DEAR ENEMY IBD

JEAN WEBSTER
BIBLIOTECH PRESS
11 / 2022
9781636374031
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Sinopsis

Dear Enemy is the 1915 sequel to Jean Webster?s 1912 novel Daddy-Long-Legs. It was among the top 10 best sellers in the U.S. in 1916. The story is presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy Abbott?s classmate and best friend in Daddy-Long-Legs. Among the recipients of the letters are Judy, Jervis Pendleton, Judy?s husband and the president of the orphanage where Sallie is filling in until a new superintendent can be installed, Gordon Hallock, a wealthy Congressman and Sallie?s later fiancé, and the orphanage?s doctor, embittered Scotsman Robin ?Sandy? MacRae (to whom Sallie addresses her letters: 'Dear Enemy'). Webster employs the epistolary structure to good effect, Sallie?s choices of what to recount to each of her correspondents reveal a lot about her relationships with them. The novel is set in rural Dutchess County, New York, early in the 20th century. It examines a number of social issues: how to care for orphans (and for children in general), divorce, and the value of women?s work. (The latter is a natural extension of the theme of women?s education in Daddy-Long-Legs.) While volunteer work by women is widely accepted, women working in responsible positions for pay is still viewed with some hostility by some characters, such as Gordon Hallock, Sallie?s friend and later fiancé, and the Honorable Cyrus Wykoff, a trustee of the John Grier Home. The Hon. Cy (as Sallie calls him) objects to the JGH paying a salary to Betsy, Sallie?s assistant: 'She?s a woman, and her family ought to support her.'Though the Hon. Cy makes it clear that he thinks Sallie is frivolous and unsuited to superintend an orphanage, Sallie is so devoted to the orphan?s well-being that she turns even her social life-explicitly criticized by the Hon. Cy-into an opportunity to further her cause, recruiting volunteers, benefactors, and foster parents at dinner parties and afternoon teas.Webster also deals with women?s life choices in a more subtle fashion. She contrasts the miserable marriage of Sallie?s friend Helen with Sallie?s fruitful life as she devotes herself to the demanding and strenuous task of running an orphanage. Sallie considers Judy Abbott, who married soon after completing college, an anomaly for her remarkably successful marriage with Jervis. Divorced from her unsuitable husband, Helen ultimately finds happiness in joining Sallie?s cause at the orphanage, applying herself to work for the public good.Socialism applied to charitable causes is an underlying theme, the John Grier Home couldn?t survive without the beneficence of the trustees and community. The novel also deals with the evolving ideas about how best to care for orphans at the turn of the century, with the institution-style establishments falling out of favor, in light of the modern ?cottage? approach. Care for the children?s emotional and spiritual needs is considered paramount, as Sallie works with Dr. MacRae, Judy, and Jervis to enact her reforms. The reasons these are nece

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