![]() After a difficult search, she finds a job as a waitress, but she worries that it is beneath her middle-class station. Mildred separates from Bert, her unemployed husband, and sets out to support herself and her children. Set in Glendale, California in the 1930s, the book is the story of a middle-class housewife, Mildred Pierce, and her attempts to maintain her family's social position during the Great Depression. Mildred Pierce is Cain’s first effort to write a novel in the third-person narrative form, a departure from his earlier works of the 1930s, all of them confessional narratives written in the first-person. ![]() The novel is one of four major works Cain wrote featuring opera as a key component in the plot ( Serenade (1937), Career in C Major (1938) and The Moth (1948) are the others.) ![]() ![]() Ī story of “social inequity and opportunity in America" set during the Great Depression, Mildred Pierce follows the trajectory of a lower-middle class divorcee with two children in her tragic struggle to achieve financial and personal success. Mildred Pierce is a psychological drama by James M. ![]()
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