Week-End Marriage

It's a well-written story set in the 1930s when it was published. It's also a very good look into the women's world of that time as Lola and her friends search for the perfect balance between ambition and marriage. One thing that interested me was that even prior to the 1940s war boom, each of the women in the story found it relatively easy to land jobs that made more than their men.

What I didn't like was two things: Lola's reasons for staying married being based on preference instead of principle, so she went back and forth and felt no guilt over being wooed by another man. Ken was a big baby with an attitude when she got too many raises in her job and I honestly had no sympathy for his hijinks. You can't expect to go running out clubbing at night and having a “good time” and have any vestige of high moral ground left.

While in the end they did do the right thing, it didn't redeem for me a lot of the carefree attitudes of the book and their previous refusal to put real “together” work into their marriage after the first few weeks of newlyweds wore off.

Content: a few swears