Perspective In Doris Kearn's Wait Till Next Year

It has often been said that baseball is America's favorite pastime, Doris Kearn's Wait Till Next Year, brings this idea into perspective. Baseball gives people something to look forward to and a team to cheer for. This seems to be a constant theme throughout your memoir. America's love of baseball is still a part of today's life but not in the same way that it seemed to be in the 5O's. People of my generation have read history books and known the stereotypes of this decade but sometimes it takes a personal account of these times, such as your book, to really bring it into perspective. Because you are the author and main character of this story, I am going to refer to the main character of this story in third person as Doris.
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In the memoir Goodwin tells us, "The house in which I grew up was modest in size, [and was] situated on less than a tenth of an acre. For my parents, however, as for other families on the block, the house on Southard Avenue was the realization of a dream." (Goodwin 55)
Suburban neighborhoods provided the safe haven of what seemed to be an endless playground for the Doris and her friends. Every piece of Doris's upbringing, though she may not have known it, were directly related to the larger forces that would later be written in history books. Doris's family "[were] early pioneers of the vast postwar migration which was to transform America into a nation of suburbs." (Goodwin 55) This is not just the case with Doris's upbringing but applies to every person, even to this day.
We are only products of our environments. Young Doris probably didn't know it then, but she was a member of the baby boomers generation, a phenomenon brought about by two decades of unrest in the United States. This is why her neighborhood was filled with children of all ages to play with. The baby boomers came about in the 50's because so many had "postponed marriage and childbearing during the Depression and war years." (Mintz