Denise’s Comments (group member since Mar 27, 2025)

Denise’s comments from the Reading "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" in April group.

It was sad to see Johnny go downhill so fast after he found out about the last baby. Poverty and a lack of resources and just the era that the story happened in. I also kind of think about how life might have been easier for them if they had been allowed to practice birth control. But as Catholics, that was impossible. Here was a young couple in love whose lives could’ve been perhaps a little more tolerable if they could’ve had the pleasure of just enjoying each other as a couple, but they were denied even that.

I really like Katie’s older sister, Sissy. In chapter 11 Katie thinks about how Sissy’s soul is going to wander in Purgatory forever because she’s a “bad girl” but whenever she tells Sissy that, Sissy says she that won’t be wandering alone. Lol!

Hi Marilyn. I got in! Yay!