A Birthday Remembered
The main character in "A Birthday Remembered" is Ellen Simms. She is a woman of about 30, and she lives alone in a house in a small town. In the same town lives Tobie, who is somewhat like a daughter to her. Ellen has lived with another woman called Jackie. Tobie is the daughter of Jackie. Tobie's father is called Roger. Roger and Jackie lived together until Jackie decided to leave him to live with Ellen. Roger was very angry with Jackie because she was leaving him for a woman. Ellen thinks, that it is more because Roger feels insulted, than he is sorry for losing Jackie. Jackie took Tobie with her when she moved from Roger, and so Ellen and Jackie had to raise Tobie. When Jackie gets sick and dies, Tobie is forced to move back to her father, where she still lives at
Ellen's relationship to Tobie is very good. Tobie has not told his father about her friend Warrick yet, because he probably would not allow her to have a boyfriend, and definitely not when she is only 14 years old. Roger is trying to make a carreer as a business executive, and he is apparently very egoistic. Ellen is unsure of whether she and Jackie have done their job well or not. Jackie also said: "Roger's a miser at heart: he wants every cent I spend accounted for, yet he'll go out and buy something outlandishly showy to prove he's got money". Tobie hopes, that if she someday has a serious relationship to someone, it will be a relationship like the one Ellen and Jackie had. The theme in the story is love and mother-daughter relations. Ellen loves Tobie as her own daughter, even if she is not. Jackie and Ellen raised her, until she had to move back to her father. When Tobie comes to visit her on her birthday, she realizes that they have, and that Tobie will be all right. Perhaps she would have liked it better if she had found a girl.
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