From: DAJ <daj9999>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:25:35 -0700 (PDT)

Christine Hill wrote: appreciate Clearly's

I agree about the tone of _Yamhill_, though I also find myself wondering about what's unsaid. Like Ramona, Cleary seems to idolize her father, but the glimpses of him in _Yamhill_ don't always show a kind, supportive father, but rather one who did get very angry at his child on occasion, yet she never seems to view his actions in any way other than sympathetically.

I also wondered how much of Cleary's family situation affected the Ramona books in that the series seems to end about at the time in Ramona's life when Cleary's relationship with her mother began to get tenser.
(Remember how she describes her years at Yamhill as near-idyllic? Even the first few years in Portland don't seem to include the kind of family problems that emerged about the time the Depression hit.)

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