Status Updates From Mary Poppins Opens the Door...

Mr. Banks’ entrance and love with the children and wife is not really explained. The movie did a better job but the tone is the same.

The last chapter is a nice round up of all the major characters from the first three books. They all turn up to say farewell to Mary Poppins. Of course the children do not realize this until the very yet. The promise at the end does not require Mary Poppins to return but rather there is a strong sense that her very essence is something that comforts the children,

In “Happily Ever After,” Michael asks about the short period of time in between the end of the old year and the start of the New Years. This introduces the temporal ecistance of the cracks, an in between and eternal place.

Again there is the suggestion that Mary Poppins is far older and a more abstract power than the Middle lass British family knows. The idea that everything on the Earth arose from the sea as recalled by an ancient turtle. This adds to the unifying quality of Mary Poppins mysticism.

The entire chapter ends with the mysterious woman, Miss Calico who appears in a Blue Moon who sells the candy horses which allow the children fly about. She arrives and she goes and takes her horses with her. The magic comes and goes.

I’ve never seen the gingerbread canes described in this chapter and so I had a hard time picturing what is going on.