Ticie And Stella See Summary

Ticie and Stella See were mother- and daughter-in-law, from different generations and backgrounds, but with the same yearning for a place to belong, a family to surround themselves with, and a way to make their mark on the world. Both women grew up in poverty, shuttled around to various relatives, never a place to settle down. They were a product of the place and time in which they grew up, yet they evolved beyond what should have been shuttered, sheltered slums and found beauty in a new culture. The lure of the exotic was certainly a part of what drew them to their husbands, Fong and Eddy See respectively, but it was also in a way what comforted them. They had not known the setting of an orderly home, attentive parents, a village drawing together
Perhaps it was easier to adapt once they shed what likely felt like a façade of American tradition. Neither of them was from a wealthy family or particularly entrenched in a religious background they had to divorce themselves from, nor did they have a past they wanted to remember. Ticie found her way into the See family by choosing to fight for her own future rather than have it thrust upon her. She saved up the money to leave Oregon, to move to Sacramento, then summoned the courage to find a job on her feet rather than her back, to use her education to her advantage. In these first somewhat tentative steps, Ticie also discovered that if she was strong enough to get that far, there shouldn't be anything else to keep her from moving even farther. Lisa wrote of her great-grandmother in a reverent tone of admiration, "there was a world out there, and Ticie Pruett longed to be a part of it." It was clear from her persistent start at the Suie On Company, Ticie was not going to be pushed down, run over, or defeated in her pursuits, personally or professionally. She had drive and tenacity and went after what she wanted with confidence built on sheer force of will. As women at the start of the 20th century were fighting for their rights and to be recognized as more than a side-piece of wife and mother, Ticie had already won what she was fighting for: her own life, the way she wanted