Betsy Was A Junior And Betsy And Joe (1947) - Plot & Excerpts
BETSY DID SOME THINKING about sororities during spring vacation. They weren’t at all what she had thought them to be. Julia’s experience made them seem shallow, and the ease with which Julia had abandoned the idea of joining one had been an eye-opener, too. Sisterhoods! That, thought Betsy, was the bunk. You couldn’t make sisterhoods with rules and elections. If they meant anything, they had to grow naturally. She thought how she and Tacy had started to be friends when they were five years old. They had added Tib, Alice and Winona; then Carney and Irma. That had been almost a real sisterhood and it could have gone on forever without hurting anybody’s feelings. They might have added Hazel Smith this year. Or perhaps, Betsy thought, she and Hazel might have had a friendship independent of the Crowd. After all, you couldn’t go through life rolling your friendships into one gigantic snowball. You wanted different kinds of friendships, with different kinds of people. She might like someone awfully well whom Tacy wouldn’t care for at all.
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