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Mildred Pierce

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Mildred Pierce The complex film Mildred Pierce (1945) commented on the appropriate roles for women in the post-war era. As one of the top-grossing films of the 1940s, Mildred Pierce provided a dark co... Read more

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Critical Essay by James T. Farrell

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Critical Essay by James T. Farrell James M. Cain's novel, Mildred Pierce, wantonly squanders what could have been a very good and representative American story; it could even have been a great ... Read more

Critical Essay by Stanley Edgar Hyman

355 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical Essay by Stanley Edgar Hyman ["Mildred Pierce"] has about three books worth of plot: financial ups and downs, everyone in bed with everyone else, six punchy trick endings one af... Read more