Neighbor Rosicky | Polly Rosicky

Polly, one of four daughters of a widow, is the wife of Rosicky’s son Rudolph. She is thin, blonde, and blue-eyed, and she ‘‘got some style, too,’’ as Rosicky notes. Unlike her husband, to whom she has been married less than a year, Polly grew up in town and is not the child of immigrants. These differences make her feel somewhat awkward around Rudy’s family—she calls her father-in-law ‘‘Mr. Rosicky’’ and is ‘‘stiff and on her guard’’ with Mary, whose occasional gifts of bread or sweets she is not quite comfortable receiving. Rosicky notes that ‘‘an...

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