Yesterday I did something I can't remember ever having done before-- I opened a new book to read at 4PM and finished it by midnight!
I seldom read novels, preferring instead the nitty gritty of stories drawn from "real life." However, this novel was a fun, light read- although the story of one of the heroines struggling with chemo treatments was a bit heavy-- but just imagining a summer on Nantucket was what I needed amid all this cold and snow!
The ending of the story was less satisfying. The young Nantucket man who saved the day by becoming the family's babysitter for two little boys, in the end seemed cast off with a paycheck and a great big "Thanks- we couldn't have done it without you" spiel. From a conflict perspective-- the ending pointed out class differences; from a structural-functionalist perspective-- the ending simply ended; and from a symbolic-interactionist perspective-- the ending showed how each character, in a different stage of life, placed meaning in his or her summer experiences.
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