A review by piburnjones
Addy's Summer Place by Connie Rose Porter
3.0
Addy feels very grown up on her visit to Cape Island: she has a new dress, new curls, and Poppa takes the family to an ice cream parlor. But a run in with white children who have even less than she does leads her to think that perhaps she isn't in too much of a rush to grow up.
I think this is the first time we've seen Addy interact with white people less well-off than she is. Why do we need to make Addy feel sorry for poor white kids who are mean to her? As usual, capitalism (here in the form of the new fancy hotels Poppa is helping to build) is pitting poor whites against poor blacks, and our sweet Addy is stuck in a place where her good heart means that she's showing generosity to people who would have let her starve were the tables turned.
I think this is the first time we've seen Addy interact with white people less well-off than she is. Why do we need to make Addy feel sorry for poor white kids who are mean to her? As usual, capitalism (here in the form of the new fancy hotels Poppa is helping to build) is pitting poor whites against poor blacks, and our sweet Addy is stuck in a place where her good heart means that she's showing generosity to people who would have let her starve were the tables turned.