An Ashton Corners: A Brief Summary

The second chapter begins with a “celebration” lunch between Barbara and Jack. During the lunch, Barbara shares a story with Jack about an experience she had with a former manager of theirs named Stan. She told Jack that Stan had been rude with her in the past and described a time when she felt she was sexually harassed by him at the office. Jack was surprised to learn this had happened, but was impressed with the way Barbara handled herself in response to the incident. Barbara sharing this story with Jack showed that she trusted him, and considered him a friend. This story brings to attention one of the problems women may encounter while in the industry and gives an example of how it was handled in this particular instance. The chapter ends with Jack returning home and discussing the pros and cons of being a partner with his wife, Libby. Jack is looking forward to many of the perks, such as private golf club memberships, but is worried that the extra hours and responsibilities may affect his family life.

Mrs.Henry and Ruby stayed in her classroom all day because she couldn’t go to lunch or recess with the other students. If she had to go to the restrooms the Marshals had to help her down the hall to make sure she was safe. The Marshals walked Ruby everywhere home, to school, to the bathroom, everywhere and always by her side. By the end of the winter break, she was stressed out she had to see Dr. Robert Coles she saw him once a week either at her school or at her home.

Come 1934, Tee Bob is in college. However, Jane finds that he is coming home to visit almost every single day to see a teacher on Samson’s plantation named Mary Agnes. Mary has black roots, so their love is forbidden. Again, Tee Bob does not understand why it is such a big deal, so he kills himself with a letter opener. Because of this, Jane wants to move. Robert does not want her to leave, so she ends up staying for five years then she moves from the big house down to the quarters.

It all begins when Blanche Morton, moves in with her sister, Kate Jerome’s family, as a result of her husband passing away. Instead of being an independent woman, and taking care of her family, she depends on her brother-in-law Jack for; financial support, guidance, and the nurturing of her children, as if they were his obligation. Unfortunately this situation causes a great deal of tension between

Following the death of her son Aibileen gets a job working as a maid for Elizabeth Leefolt who has just had a baby girl Mae Mobley and is in need of help taking care of her. Aibileen tries her best to teach Mae Mobley

She tries to make them believe that the books they received are “wonderful”. In actuality, the books are dirty and old. Little Man is known as a clean and organized person so he was not happy about getting a book in that shape. Furthermore, he opens the book and sees a list. This list shows the year that the book was given, the condition of the book and the race of the student that the book was given to. For example, in 1992, it said the condition was “new” and the race of the student was “white”. In 1933, the condition of the book was “very poor” and the race of the student was “nigra”. This infuriated Little Man. He throws the book on the floor and stomps on it. In turn, Miss Crocker takes him outside and gives him a whooping.

They provide him with clean clothes, free meals and a place to wash up. When asked by her daughter why they do this for this man, Alice reminds her daughter Pam “You Never When You Might Be Entertaining an Angel”. Charlotte, Mrs. Cartwright finds out she has a problem that the doctor tell her about. The doctors tell her she had early onset “Alzheimer’s”. Without sharing her health information she asks Alice to take a trip across the United States heading west. She buys a 1959 Cadillac to drive on the trip. She wants to feel alive and have fun before the Alzheimer’s sets in. They travel through many states during their trip. While it’s her turn to drive Alice stops by a river and encourages Charlotte to get saved by being baptized in a river. Charlotte stops by a bar and has fun drinking and dancing, but Alice being a Christian doesn’t want anything to do with that stuff. The trip ends when Charlotte has an episode and Alice learns she has Alzheimer’s and wants to go home. While away Charlotte’s son William tries to stab his mother in the back and retire her early from her own company. This is a sad example of power and money being a priority more than family love and loyalty. William is definitely controlled by the secular world. Charlotte has a surprise her friend Alice has been buying stock from Nick, who although is now going through a rough time once was a stock investor for Cartwright’s inc. and William fired him. Nick, Pam and Alice attend a board meeting, the

In book 1 it starts off by describing a family by the name of the Dursley's and their daily routine. It explains how they are a very normal family

Suddenly, as Emma and Lizzie were in the early 30’s, they grew very resentful towards Abby and moods started changing. Abby always tried being a loving mother and tried teaching them courtesy and more, but the girls just wouldn't take it. Lizzie did not make friends easily but to her, she didn’t really need many; all she needed was her sister who promised her birth­mother she would watch after her and she has.

It is a story about an old lady, Mrs. Miller. One day, she meets a girl

In 1935,after a year of living down the street, Frank and Nora (Flynn) Young, and their two young children, Mary Ann and Pat, move back in with Nora’s parents and two sisters who are now living at 4133A Peck. Frank has a job working at a nearby tavern at 3516 Kossuth. It is not known if Frank is managing the tavern or merely working there. He has held this job since moving to North St. Louis. For Frank and Nora, 1936 is a year of change. For the third

Then Frankie goes to a bar and an army man tries to kiss Frankie but she won't let him. Although the book, talks about how Frankie decides to go with Janis and Jarvis and she ends up buying a dress but Bernice thinks that it does not look good on her.

Charlie and his wife lived in Paris during the twenties, and just as any other night they were out drinking and having fun. They get into a fight witch results in his wife, Helen, kissing another man. Charlie storms home, and an hour later when Helen has stumbled herself home, Charlie locks her out of their apartment and she dies soon after. Charlie has a breakdown and is institutionalized right before he looses all his money in the stock market crash of 1929. As the story opens three years later Charlie is back in Paris, sober, determined to get custody over his daughter, Honoria, who lives with Helens sister, Marion.

Trying to find justice to her terrible childhood. Lori was the first one to leave in New York City after graduating, later on, Jeanette followed her and move in with her. Jeanette found a job very quickly as a reporter, they were both Lori and Jeanette living their dream away from her parents. Everything was turning out great for them and decided to tell their younger siblings to move in with them, and they did. Jeanette was finally happy for once, enjoying the freedom from her parents and from having to move every two weeks or so. She then found a guy whom she married and went on with her lifestyle. On the long run, her parents again couldn’t afford a house or to stay in stabled job, so decided to move in with Jeanette and her siblings, and again Jeanette felt like she was never going to have a normal life because her parents were going to follow

Laura's self-image is that of an unpopular girl, a bookworm, and she seems amazed that her handsome husband, "had kissed, courted, and proposed to...the bookworm...who had never been sought after or cherished" (40). She marries him out of a sense of duty and because it is what women do in 1949, but finds marriage and motherhood smothering. She feels inept at the simplest chores, such as creating a birthday cake for her husband and caring for her three-year-old son, and prefers to spend her time reading. She has a difficult time separating the fantasy of "Mrs. Dalloway, which she is reading, and the reality of her life. She finds herself attracted to a neighbor woman and must also deal with feelings of guilt caused by that attraction. Pregnant, desperately unhappy, depressed, and unwilling to take her own life, she affects her escape by abandoning her husband and children.