Blythe Quake
Flickr Advent Group & December Blythe-a-Day 6: Door/Window: Nerissa
During the Jazz Age:
One day, Nerissa paused as she looked out the window at Daisy Buchanan's English estate. Several inches of snow covered the landscape and far as she could see and the wind mercilessly swirled clouds of white. Nerissa felt very fortunate that she didn't have to contend with such weather.
Before she came to live at work at Daisy's home, Nerissa would have had to huddle together with other child laboreres.... "I might have frozen to death," she thought.
Now, however, she found herself in warm surroundings: "Inside looking out," she pondered, "Instead of outside looking in..."
Life had improved for Nerissa though it was not without complications. Nerissa was no longer expected to help clean Daisy's home, though she did light work nonetheless, being certain that she would have to work her whole life through. Furthermore, Daisy mainly wanted the little girl to be a companion for her adopted daughter Becky, though Nerissa didn't want to think of their friendship as an obligation.
In sum, whatever thorny issues might arise amidst the good fortune Nerissa had encountered, her fortunes had risen so drastically that for the first time in her life, she understood that she, too, could experience what so many took for granted: a Merry Christmas...
To Be Continued.
Flickr Advent Group & December Blythe-a-Day 6: Door/Window: Nerissa
During the Jazz Age:
One day, Nerissa paused as she looked out the window at Daisy Buchanan's English estate. Several inches of snow covered the landscape and far as she could see and the wind mercilessly swirled clouds of white. Nerissa felt very fortunate that she didn't have to contend with such weather.
Before she came to live at work at Daisy's home, Nerissa would have had to huddle together with other child laboreres.... "I might have frozen to death," she thought.
Now, however, she found herself in warm surroundings: "Inside looking out," she pondered, "Instead of outside looking in..."
Life had improved for Nerissa though it was not without complications. Nerissa was no longer expected to help clean Daisy's home, though she did light work nonetheless, being certain that she would have to work her whole life through. Furthermore, Daisy mainly wanted the little girl to be a companion for her adopted daughter Becky, though Nerissa didn't want to think of their friendship as an obligation.
In sum, whatever thorny issues might arise amidst the good fortune Nerissa had encountered, her fortunes had risen so drastically that for the first time in her life, she understood that she, too, could experience what so many took for granted: a Merry Christmas...
To Be Continued.