Auntie Mame- The First 63 pages.

Chapters: 1. Auntie Mame and the orphan boy, 2.Auntie Mame and the children's hour, 3.Auntie Mame and Mammon

When I had read less than 10 pages of this book I explained Auntie Mame to someone as reading like Breakfast at Tfiffanys. The movie, not the Novella. It could read like the novella, but it's been over 10 years since I read that. But I see a lot of Holly Golightly in Auntie Mame. She's bright and pretty but a little unrealistic and codependent. The true difference is that Auntie Mame wants to make a go at it alone. The book takes places in the late 20s-early 30s so far. It opens with the death of the narrators father and him being sent to go live with his only known relative, his dad's sister, a peculiar woman. The book touches on all the un PC aspects of  its day, such as the Irish Nanny exclaiming " Dear God a Chinese!" or when Mame's modern designed are tagged as communist.

I think the most blatant aspect of the book so far is the very clear Auntie Mame against all the good moral, uptight, right wing, christian people who don't understand her and want to bring her down. She has to battle the Trustee of Patrick's estate. She has to battle everyone who tells her to give up and get married. After the market Crash Mame is forced to work and takes on a variety of jobs from a publishing house ( she loses the manuscript) to being a sales lady at upscale boutique (she is too honest and tells the rich women they are fat and to go to Lane Bryant, which I had no idea existed in 1930!) She then has luck with modern art pottery studio only to have it burn to the ground ( of course she forgot to send in the insurance premium.)

I see a lot of myself in Mame, and because of that I of course like her. I tend to try my hand a lot of things that interest me ( I have an Fine Art degree and a Theatre degree). I also, much to the dismay of most people haven't really ever worked. I also love that after ever failed attempt to be a working women someone gently (or sometimes not so) tells her that her best bet is to find a husband. They tell her that she is too pretty to be a "spinster aunt" and that all her problems would be gone if she could just settle down and be someone's wife. So far she has been to head strong to listen, until she meets a man who buys buys skates for orphans...