A Birthday Remembered essays

A Birthday Remembered essays The main character in A Birthday Remembered is Ellen Simms. She is a woman of about 30, and she lives alone in a house in a small town. In the same town lives Tobie, who is somewhat like a daughter to her. Ellen has lived with another woman called Jackie. Tobie is the daughter of Jackie. Tobies father is called Roger. Roger and Jackie lived together until Jackie decided to leave him to live with Ellen. Roger was very angry with Jackie because she was leaving him for a woman. Ellen thinks, that it is more because Roger feels insulted, than he is sorry for losing Jackie. Jackie took Tobie with her when she moved from Roger, and so Ellen and Jackie had to raise Tobie. When Jackie gets sick and dies, Tobie is forced to move back to her father, where she still lives at the time of the story. Tobie will soon be 15 years old. She calls Ellen Aunt El, even though she is not her aunt. Roger is trying to make a carreer as a business executive, and he is apparently very egoistic. He does not ca re a lot about Tobie. He forbids her to do a lot of things that she wants to do. Roger is quite well off, so she could get money if she needed it, but Tobie has a job as a library page in her spare time because she likes to have her own money. Tobie has not told his father about her friend Warrick yet, because he probably would not allow her to have a boyfriend, and definitely not when she is only 14 years old. Tobie says about her father, that his main object in life seems to be to prove how much money he can make and keep. When even his own daughter can say this about him, it has to be true. Jackie also said: Rogers a miser at heart: he wants every cent I spend accounted for, yet hell go out and buy something outlandishly showy to prove hes got money. Ellens relationship to Tobie is very good. Jackie and Ellen raised her, until she had to move back to her father. Ellen is unsure of wheth...