Mildred encounters both success and tragedy, opening three successful restaurants and operating a pie-selling business, and coping with the death of her younger daughter, Kay. Actually, Mildred worries more that her ambitious elder daughter, Veda, will think her new job is demeaning. Frustrated by her unemployed cheating husband, and worried by their dwindling finances, Mildred separates from him and sets out to support herself and her children on her own.Īfter a difficult search, she finally finds a job as a waitress, but she worries that it is beneath her middle-class station. Set in Glendale, California, in the 1930s, Mildred Pierce is the story of a middle-class housewife's attempt to maintain her and her family's social position during the Great Depression.
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