From Landscape for a Good Woman - Carolyn Kay Steedman

From Landscape for a Good Woman by Carolyn Kay Steedman 

From The Norton's Book of Woman's Lives By Phyllis Ross 

 Carolyn Kay Steedman 

    In Carolyn Key Steedman's passage From  Landscape For A Good Woman, Steedman discusses the physical and mental damages the war had left behind. The city was destroyed and so were the lives of the people who lived through the war, some of whom were close to Caroyln; her mother, and her father. As she grew up and became more independent and mature, she learned more about why she grew up the way she did and realized she was actually lucky. Though she had much to be thankful for, resentment towards her father was prominent due to blaming him for the visceral state of their family and the "dissatisfaction" (718) of her mother. 

The trauma from the war her parents went through stuck with them and continued to affect them for many years after.  Carolyn, being born right after WWII, was born into an era of the fantasy of life before the war, and Carolyn's mother lived in her own materialistic fantasy world. Carolyn saw this affect her mother as her"fair-tale [had] failed" (724) and felt bad for her, as she believed her mother deserved much more.