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      Book Girls’ Guide
      Keymaster
        @bookgirlsguideam

        Were you drawn more toward Ruby or Eleanor? Or both?

      • #527
        Priya
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          @prireader

          I did connect with both but Ruby was just that bit more relatable with her struggle. She had no one in her corner unlike Eleanor who had William in her life.

        • #680
          Jaci
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            @retiredreader

            I connected to both, but I like Ruby more. Ruby was tough and determined to make her way out of the poverty cycle. Eleanor appears as a very typical 1950’s college student, more determined to get a MRS. than a degree. Marriage will improve her social status. The hardships of Ruby builds her strength. Eleanor’s miscarriages delete her strength. It was such a powerful book with the duel stories. I liked the ending. There was a connection between Rudy and Eleanor, which I’d been looking foras I read.

          • #712
            Priya
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              @prireader

              True! Ruby’s goal was independence. Eleanor’s was to forge a good life for herself through marrying well and then fitting in!

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