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A review by sloatsj
The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
3.0
This is the story of a married couple back in the day of full-time working class housewives, and how a role reversal between wife and husband gives them and their children better lives all around. The husband, a dreamy literature lover, becomes the home-maker and creates a much more loving and happy atmosphere. The wife, a perfectionist, goes off to work in a department store where she flourishes. The three children benefit because their father, in a wheelchair because of a fall, pays more attention to their personalities than to whether they're dressed neatly or their hands are clean.
The book was a bit overwrought in places, and the father's flights of poetry were sometimes too much (and I'm a poet). But it was a heart-warming story and I shed a couple tears here and there. In the end of course it's a social novel about the straitjacket of gender roles, and the lengths someone will go to to escape them.
The book was a bit overwrought in places, and the father's flights of poetry were sometimes too much (and I'm a poet). But it was a heart-warming story and I shed a couple tears here and there. In the end of course it's a social novel about the straitjacket of gender roles, and the lengths someone will go to to escape them.