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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })So Big is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1924 novel by Edna Ferber.The story follows several decades in the lives of a mother and son. Selina Peake is the spirited young daughter of a widowed gambler in late-19th-century Chicago. After her father is shot and killed, Selina is left alone in the world at the age of 19. She leaves the city and gets a job teaching in the Dutch farming village of High Prairie, Illinois (nowadays, the Roseland neighborhood of a larger Chicago). She marries a stolid but decent farmer, Pervus DeJong, and seemingly settles for life in grim poverty and hopelessness. But after tragedy intervenes, Selina makes a success out of her husband's little farm.The second part of the novel follows her son Dirk. Selina sends Dirk off to college, and he studies to be an architect. His mother, who still has an appreciation for art and beauty despite spending decades scratching out a living as a farmer, is proud of her son for picking a noble profession. But after World War I leaves Dirk feeling more cynical about the world, he decides to make money as a bond trader, much to Selina's disappointment.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })There have been several screen adaptations, most notably a 1932 film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck as Selina (with a pre-stardom Bette Davis appearing as Dirk's Love Interest Dallas O'Meara), and a 1953 film directed by Robert Wise and starring Jane Wyman as Selina. | |
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Born Unlucky: Pervus. The narration talks about how things never work out for him. His wife died in childbirth and the baby died soon after. If he plants in anticipation of a wet summer they get drought and if he plants in anticipation of a dry summer they get rain. Somewhat subverted when the story makes clear that Pervus's failures are in part because of his general dullness and his unwillingness to follow Selina's advice and try new farming methods; she eventually becomes a much more successful farmer than he was. | |
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Death by Childbirth:Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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