Word: adulthoods
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...liberal herself, and has her objections to the status quo. But she emerges as a spokesperson for the American Way. She feels the liberal parents' real failure lies in the fact that their children haven't gone on to "join the company of its fully accredited adult members," i.e., "adulthood" as society defines...
...enlightened, middle class"--are still influenced by the attitudes of their parents. Her liberal parents bend over backwards to avoid the mistakes their parents made, and if Decter was not so defensive about her own generation, she might find that it never grew up either--that her definition of adulthood as a state in which one is completely self-defining may be beyond the limits of human imperfection...
...this collapsed little world into another order of world together." It is the narrator, the old sexless observer, who sees the way to this world of unlimited possibility; but Emily, transmuted into an earthmother, is the one who finally leads the rest. Emily, sure of her love and adulthood, has taken her place in a new order. The narrator can only watch and wonder as "the last walls" dissolve...
...main characters. Their growth has been partially obscured by the author's own involvement in it. Her involvement in this novel is defined: she is the watcher, and, although she understands Emily's growth, she stands back from it. She has already been through the struggle to achieve adulthood, and can only guide by example. While she has used an omniscient narrator in other books, the character's struggles have been her own, and their realism prevented resolution. Walls don't open up in real life, and women do not burst through into other world's. Africa, Lessing's nemesis...
...More than half of all hemophiliacs die before the age of five. Even with regular transfusions ... only 11% live to age 21." This derives from a paragraph in which I was describing the situation at the turn of the century. Today almost all hemophiliacs grow to adulthood and, once there, can expect to live a relatively normal life span...