The Book GI Brides: The Wartime Girls who crossed the Atlantic for love is a good example of one of the many overlooked effects that war can have on one’s life. This book takes a look at four English women who are living in England at the tail end of World War two. Each women has her own story, but there similarities in all. Sylvia is a young woman who has quit school to work in the “Posh” side of London. She acquires a temp position at a hotel. She discovers that part of the allure of the job is people watching. The most interesting are the American soldiers. She soon also starts to volunteer for the Red Cross to help American Soldiers at what seems to be a pool hall/restaurant of such. She attracts the attention of many of the soldiers and …show more content…
She in inexperienced with men and doesn’t want anything to do with the American soldiers. When she was walking down the street a soldier asked her if she wanted some perfume and she refused. When her mother sees the interaction she is scolded and told to say sorry and accept the present. After this she is hooked she soon starts to date several other men, but many of them are shipped off to war. She soon meets Ben an Italian American from California. They too soon are engaged to be married. The effect of the war on men and the promise of change and prosperity the men had shown, pushed the brides to marry the soldiers although they didn’t know the true circumstances that they would endure in crossing the ocean to live their new …show more content…
They were many times referred to as lazy and unkempt. Many British soldiers deemed them morally unequipped to date their women. In many of the women’s stories they did at first regard some of the men as disgusting. They were offended at some of the behavior many showed to them. In one story a young women is asked to a ball and being three times younger than the man he asks her to prove him wrong that she isn’t just a girl by taking accompanying him up to his room. Some soldiers also thought they were there just to grab the glory of the win by coming in late to the