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Dealing with drugs, class and love in a complex and at times controversial manner.
Ashley Brown, the title character, reads many love stories and as such has a romanticized view of life and love. She is on a mission to find a man, despite being hardworking and successful, this is her dream. Unfortunately, such dreams can land heavily and having a good start and an idealistic nature is never really enough.
The novel The Secret Life Of Ashley Brown is in a sense a coming of age book, despite the character being significantly older than one would expect. Ashley relates to us the story of her twenties and how she was made in those years.
Women and the role of women play a significant role within the book. Her mother is a dominant maternal figure and a strong household presence, whom Ashley fears, whereas her father is the put-upon husband who provides. Ashley moves into the world of publishing and a modern life to escape her family’s conservatism and her mother’s dominance.
Another significant theme of the novel is class and how it consciously and unconsciously affects us, both in how we see ourselves and how we treat others. Ashley’s boyfriend Dean is from a lower class and in the novel she encounters many characters that society looks down on, including criminals, dealers and prostitutes. This is held in conscious contrast to the upper class publishing world in which she works and which she comes from.
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