CC and Hillary Grow Up by Letter, Explained：falling apart

What's really going on

The letters do two things at once: they tell the story of two lives and they draw the contrast between them. Hillary grows up inside wealth and manners, and the language she is handed — 'proper,' 'well-bred,' 'cultured' — is exactly what she cannot stand. 'I go through life thinking everyone's watching me. Are they?' she writes, exposing the loneliness inside a life that looks perfect. CC has the opposite problem: no money and no breaks, learning in a cellar studio where, as she jokes, 'you only graduate when you're tall enough to hit your head on the ceiling.' Their letters are where each can say what she cannot say at home, which is why a friendship kept at a distance still holds. The chapter moves from childhood nicknames to adult worries — law school, protest marches, no agent, no work — and the joke about Vitamin A lands because by then both women know what it is to want to give up.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• Don't lose heart means keep your hope
• End up points to where you finally land
• Get sick of something means be fed up
• All set means everything is ready

発音のポイント

• get to — The t in get to flaps into a soft d sound.
• fun to — The to weakens to a quick tuh sound.
• about to — About to runs together into abou-ta.