Like Deanna, who I'm sure Lynn just saw as a clerk waiting to be rescued by Important Writer Husband.
For a woman who enjoyed the power and leverage her multi-million-dollar salary gave her in her family, it is interesting that she always put women in traditionally female careers and jobs or as in the case of Deanna, indicated that her job was just a stopgap until Mike started making the real money. In her first marriage, Lynn was able to bully her husband into moving across the country so she could pursue a career in animation. However, with second husband Rod and his family, the move to Corbeil from their hometown of Lynn Lake could have only occurred thanks to her making so much money. If she had been a housewife and a mommy, where she puts her female characters, the Johnston family would have just said, "No thanks. Rod's job is way too important to the community here to uproot the whole family just because you want to live in a place with better shopping."
However, it does make me wonder if Lynn saw a pharmacist as a clerk who just dispensed prepackaged prescription medicines, without understanding that you had to have a degree to do that. Would she look at the career so superficially? It makes perfect sense that she would. After all, in Lynn Lake, her best friend's husband, the pharmacist, was the only other medical guy in Lynn Lake, and in her notes she has very low opinion of him,
Like Deanna, who I'm sure Lynn just saw as a clerk waiting to be rescued by Important Writer Husband.
For a woman who enjoyed the power and leverage her multi-million-dollar salary gave her in her family, it is interesting that she always put women in traditionally female careers and jobs or as in the case of Deanna, indicated that her job was just a stopgap until Mike started making the real money. In her first marriage, Lynn was able to bully her husband into moving across the country so she could pursue a career in animation. However, with second husband Rod and his family, the move to Corbeil from their hometown of Lynn Lake could have only occurred thanks to her making so much money. If she had been a housewife and a mommy, where she puts her female characters, the Johnston family would have just said, "No thanks. Rod's job is way too important to the community here to uproot the whole family just because you want to live in a place with better shopping."
However, it does make me wonder if Lynn saw a pharmacist as a clerk who just dispensed prepackaged prescription medicines, without understanding that you had to have a degree to do that. Would she look at the career so superficially? It makes perfect sense that she would. After all, in Lynn Lake, her best friend's husband, the pharmacist, was the only other medical guy in Lynn Lake, and in her notes she has very low opinion of him,
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Of course she does. She's on all fours with that goof Seinfeld.
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eurgh, thanks for the visual!
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