If he wanted to buy a house, if he ever had a solid job, there isn’t a chance he could afford one. There is no postwar high for his generation, and he has a lot to say about it. Tail between his legs, he has to move back home and live in his parent’s basement. Unlike the baby boomer generation (his parents included) with their endless possibilities and still feasting on the spoils of the war generation, all he has to show is mounting debt, and a broken heart after his girlfriend Cassie refuses his marriage proposal. They, too, wanted plenty, but they did not have.įor Mark Brumfeld his talents as a Bluegrass musician, journalist, and now holding a PhD in English- life hasn’t taken him to the places his youthful dreams promised.
They had and they had and they had, as if that was the very condition of their own existance- having, owning, getting, living out Bellow’s I want, I want, I want- while he and his generation had not.
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