5/22/2023 0 Comments The easter parade yates![]() Pookie lives in a world where fish need bicycles in other words, her daughters need to get married. This means that the girls are raised by a delusional woman who has a deceptive idea of their place in the world. She yearns for style and class but doesn’t have it. Their father is a ghost figure working in a small position at a newspaper, a job he puffs up in order to look better in the eyes of his daughters. Their mother doesn’t do motherly and thinks she belongs to a better social class that the one she belongs to.Įsther Grimes, or Pookie, was a small, active woman whose life seemed pledged to achieving and sustaining an elusive quality she called “flair.” ![]() The Easter Parade feels like a long-term documentary about the destiny of two sisters raised by parents who failed them. After they parents got divorced, they went to live with their mother Esther and only met their father on weekends. The said Grimes sisters are Sarah and Emily. If you had any hope to have Richard Yates cheer you up with his Easter Parade, he crushes it with the first sentence of his novel. ![]() Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents’ divorce. ![]()
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