At the center of this novel are serious subjects such as death, alienation, poverty, alcoholism, and teen-age pregnancy, but none of these is treated as more than a slight, temporary discomfort. For example, when Julie's mother dies, Julie forgets her quickly, and her father remarries after a few years. Additionally, the novel is subtly moralistic.
Socially acceptable people have only transitory problems that can be solved with dedication to proper values.
Problems are the fault of the individual, never of society, and it.....
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