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Originally Posted by Flatbutt1
Well, you ask what life I would choose so I'd be the Lord of Downton Abbey.
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In the plot I think he is plagued with a sense of failure. His eldest daughter was written into the story as the preserver of the estate.
Now the fun fantasy would have been to be Carson.
My father was pretty young during the Depression and was a child of fairly well off middle class Mid Westerners. He saw the development of TV to computers to landing on the moon. He witnessed (at a distance) the social revolution of the 60's. He lived into the 90's and saw quite a bit of the time after the 60's but from the 40's to the 60's things really changed. It had to be hard to accept. And in many ways he didn't. He just rode off into the sunset with a martini or 3.
People call his time the Great Generation. I think it was. He lived large, that's for sure.