Comparinga Simpson's Theme In Anywhere But Here-Mona Simpson

Anywhere But Here-Mona Simpson In Anywhere But Here, a novel published in the late 1980s, Anne and her mother move away from their family in Wisconsin to Bel Air California right out of the blue. The reason for this is Ann’s mother, Adele, wants to move as far away as possible from her so called boring life on to a fresh new exciting start. On their way they got into a car accident and stayed in a fancy and might I add expensive hotel in the time their car is getting fixed up. In this setting Ann and Adele seem to be the best of friends, but only because money seems not to be an issue. Money is basically the root of all their problems. Adele’s contribution to this problem is that she attempts to live a life she cannot afford all while

It’s almost as if the roles are reversed in a typical mother daughter relationship. Ann’s aunt, Lillian, admitted that Adele was never really all there all there since she was a little girl and that she liked to live high on the hog. Lillian and Ann’s grandmother helped raise her which is probably where she gets her sense of mind from. As for Adele, she lies to others around her just to make it seem as if she has her life together. She pretends to be a married woman with a rich husband, goes around the city in search of a luxurious home, products, etc. Her want in life is to fulfill the American dream. In my opinion Adele is stuck somewhere between wanting a lavish life for herself and a secured famous future for her daughter. She wants Ann to be an actress, and although Ann has the brains and the

She takes credit for Ann’s success in life. “If I were such an awful mother, the way she paints me out to be…then she wouldn’t be so great…I know she’ll thank me one day.” She praises herself immensely to the point where it seems as if she’s using Ann as an excuse to gloat. To me Adele had good intentions throughout the entire novel, but her way of practicing them were just plain wrong. For example, she wants to provide her daughter a father figure and instead of fulfilling that gap by finding a man that loves her unintentionally she attempts to find a man of money who can provide both the father figure and the financial stability. She doesn’t seem to realize that she needs to take one thing at a time in order for them to work