The woman who wrote this essay tells the story of her motherhood and the failure of her marriage. After explaining her loss of a husband she explained how she was inspired to pursue a higher education and to become a doctor, of sorts. She then has a conversation with her old-fashioned mother who, after witnessing everything that happened to her daughter, stated if she hadn’t gone through the divorce then she would never had to go back to school. The woman in the story understands her mothers position because she was raised in a different time period when women didn’t work outside of the house often. In a way she writes as if her divorce was a good thing.
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I liked the way you presented the sequence of events in Deborah Tannen’s article in a concise manner. Be sure to include all the elements of a summary, though: article’s title, author’s name, publication info, purpose and main points. You could weave in your details while still including the necessariy information for an objective summary. We can talk more about this another time. I enjoyed how you grasped that Tannen does, indeed, understand her mother better after all those years. Thank you for sharing your point of view on this article!