Rosemary and Toby’s journey in the beginning of the book from Florida to Utah perfectly embodies this idea. On the road trip to Utah in search for uranium, Toby explains his mother’s plan “...to do some serious compensating: for the years of hard work…as a novice secretary, that had gotten her no farther than flat broke…for the breakup of our family…for the misery of her long affair with a violent man” (Wolff 6). The two leave behind everyone and everything they’ve ever known in the hope to rebuild a more enriched life; Toby and his mother escape their old life of a broken family, violence, and a bad job in the chance that they can start
Rosemary and Toby’s journey in the beginning of the book from Florida to Utah perfectly embodies this idea. On the road trip to Utah in search for uranium, Toby explains his mother’s plan “...to do some serious compensating: for the years of hard work…as a novice secretary, that had gotten her no farther than flat broke…for the breakup of our family…for the misery of her long affair with a violent man” (Wolff 6). The two leave behind everyone and everything they’ve ever known in the hope to rebuild a more enriched life; Toby and his mother escape their old life of a broken family, violence, and a bad job in the chance that they can start