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"Don't let's ask for the moon! We've the superstars!" The film that concludes with Bette Davis's famous term reaffirmed Davis's own stardom and evolved the way People in the usa smoked smoking cigarettes. But few contemporary fans of the story of the woman's self-realization know its source. Olive Higgins Prouty's 1941 novel Now, Voyager has an even richer, deeper family portrait of the interior life of its protagonist and the modern culture she inhabits. Viewed from a distance greater than 60 years, it also offers fresh and quietly radical assumes psychiatric treatment, traditional family life, feminine desire, and women's agency. Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an disappointed, sheltered life. Depressed, dowdy, repressed, and forcing 40, Charlotte locates salvation at a sanitarium, where she undergoes an mental and physical change. After her extreme makeover, the new Charlotte studies her mettle by getting into a sail and locates herself in a torrid romance with a married man which ends towards the end of the voyage. But only then can the true journey start, as Charlotte is forced to navigate a fresh life for herself. While Now, Voyager is a tear-jerking relationship, it reaches the same time the empowering tale of a woman who locates the power to graph her own course in life; who discovers love, making love, and even motherhood outside of matrimony; and who learns that men are, eventually, dispensable in the search for joy and fulfillment.
