For instance, Betty is sent to night school - twice - by different bosses for her ineptitude. Yet, Anybody Can Do Anything is full of running around and goofiness. Somewhere near the later 80% Betty mentions she had a bout of tuberculosis, which is where The Plague and I, her second memoir and the only one serious in tone, fits in. As a result, both Mary and Betty hop from job to job, always unqualified, but somehow pulling the work off long enough to make money for the family home. Still, Betty frets over her inability to type or do shorthard or even file properly, because Mary keeps setting Betty up at secretarial jobs. When Betty suggests she attend night school because she has no skills beyond egg farmer’s wife, Mary notes that executives raking in the money don’t go to night school. Mary’s attitude doesn’t change in adulthood. Betty begins Anybody Can Do Anything arriving in Seattle, Washington and then going into her childhood, giving plenty of examples of Mary coaxing all the siblings into trouble because it seems like Mary might get or learn something as a result.
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