A few months later Emily goes off to college where she has multiple love affairs. One night, Emily goes out to see a movie, but instead finds herself seduced by a young soldier on his way to war. Sarah begins dating Tony and they soon marry, taking up residence in the guest house of the estate owned by Tony's parents.Įmily grows up almost unnoticed by those around her. Pookie, her mother, pushes Sarah to meet the family's English raised son, Tony. A short time later, a new family moves into the apartment building where Sarah lives with her mother and sister. When the fiancée cannot live up to expectations, he is chased away, leaving Sarah alone. Sarah falls in love and becomes engaged, but her absentee father suddenly becomes quite concerned with her future and asks some tough questions of her fiancée. When Sarah graduates from high school, she is not interested in college but instead gets a job. Emily also finds herself left out when Sarah gets braces on her teeth and is allowed to spend a day each week in the city with their father. Once, when Sarah wants to go to a football game with a boy at school, Emily talks her out of it and finds herself the subject of scorn when their mother learns the truth. Sarah, the older and more beautiful of the two sisters, often finds herself showered with attention from her distracted mother to the point where Emily feels left out and misunderstood. The Easter Parade is a story of the impact of divorce on two very different girls, a novel that not only entertains, but leaves the reader with an overwhelming sense of the futility of life.Įmily and Sarah are two sisters who are forced to rely on one another when their parents divorce and their mother takes them from town to town as she searches for a way to make a life for herself in a world that is rarely kind to divorced women. Emily focuses on education and a career after high school, finding herself moving from one relationship to the next without thought of the future. Emily grows up feeling as though she is constantly overlooked, as though she is an afterthought to her self-absorbed parents. Emily is Sarah's younger, less attractive sister.
This marriage seems perfect on the outside, but hides a dark secret no one will learn until it is too late. After graduating high school, Sarah marries a handsome man who was raised in England. Sarah is a beautiful young girl who always felt secure in who she was and the love of her parents. This novel follows the lives of two very different sisters after the divorce of their parents in the 1930s. The Easter Parade is a novel by critically acclaimed author Richard Yates.
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