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A Rose for Emily

Opening Statement: How I Met My Husband takes place after World War II in a small farming community that is just beginning to get "modernized". Edie, who has failed her first year of high school miserably (a score of 37% as published in the local newspaper), quits school to work for the Peebles as a live in maid. The Peebles are one of the new families that has bought a farm to live on, not necessarily work on. Edie is a fairly naive country girl and, in the middle of becoming accustomed to the more modern way the Peebles do things, is going through adolescence. One day a pilot lands his plane on the Peebles' land and starts giving people plane rides to make some money. He changes Edie's life forever.

This is a coming of age story about Edie's encounter with this man who changes her life as she grows up, grows strong, and meets the man that she is going to marry. As she tells this story as an adult looking back on her life, the reader understands that she has no regrets about the turn that her life has taken.

(1) Edie is not considered very bright, is bewildered by the more modern mind set of the Peebles, and actually appears to be pretty naive at the beginning of the story, yet through fumbling about and self-discovery she is able to come to some fairly adult conclusions by the end of the story.

Example: At fifteen, Edie is shy, naive, considered dull, and has only been exposed to her family's farming as a way of life. Edie's parents had sent her to her first year in high school, but as her score at the end of the year was 37%, her "father said that's enough and I didn't blame him" (p. 455). Dr. Peebles, the local veterinarian, is there when her scores are being discussed by the family and offers Edie a job to help out his wife, as she is feeling "tied down, with the two children, out in the country" (p. 455). Edie and her mother are both bewildered by this concept and were "wondering what on earth it would be li...

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