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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Marjorie, Morningstar, York's with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Marjorie Morningstar'
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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Marjorie, Morningstar, York's? Start with the sentence 'Marjorie Morningstar (novel): Marjorie Morgenstern, born 1916, is a New York Jewish girl in the 1930s'.
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conversations.value: Marjorie Morningstar (novel): Marjorie Morgenstern, born 1916, is a New York Jewish girl in the 1930s.\nShe is bright, very beautiful and popular, with lots of boyfriends.\nHer father is a prosperous businessman, and her family has recently moved from a poorer ethnically Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx to the wealthier neighborhood on Manhattan\'s Upper West Side.\nHer mother hopes that the change of neighborhood will help Marjorie marry a man with a brighter future.\nMarjorie dreams of becoming an actress, using "Marjorie Morningstar" as a stage name.\nShe begins with her school\'s (Hunter College) production of The Mikado, and lands the title role.\nThis introduces her to Marsha Zelenko, who will become her best friend (for a while).\nMarsha encourages Marjorie in her quest, and helps her gain a job as a dramatic counselor at the summer camp, where Marsha teaches arts and crafts.\nDuring the summer Marsha persuades Marjorie to accompany her on an illicit excursion to South Wind, an exclusive adult resort with a staff of professional entertainers.\nThere Marjorie meets Noel Airman, an older man who has won some fame as a composer, as well as Wally Wronken, a younger man who hopes to become a playwright.\nMarjorie idolizes Noel, who can sing, dance, compose, and speak several languages.\nThey begin a relationship that determines the next four years of her life.\nHe tells her that he has no interest in marrying, or fitting in with the middle class life that he tells her she will ultimately want.\nHaving changed his birth name from Saul to Noel to escape his Jewish origins, he mocks her Jewish observances (such as her unwillingness to eat bacon), and taunts her for her \'Mosaic\' unwillingness to engage in premarital sex.\nNoel tells Marjorie that she is a "Shirley": a typical well-brought up New York Jewish girl who will ultimately want a stable husband and family, while he is embarking on an artistic career.\nOver the course of the novel, neither Noel nor Marjorie finds professional success in the theater.\nMarjorie accepts that she will not succeed as a professional actress, and spends more of her time reading and working.\nNoel takes and quits stable writing and editing jobs, blaming Marjorie for motivating him to take jobs that do not suit him and for his unhappiness.\nHe flees New York in a panic rather than marry Marjorie, saying that he will not succeed as a writer and will return to studying philosophy.\nHaving entered a sexual relationship with him, Marjorie is convinced that her only hope is to marry Noel.\nShe decides that the best way to persuade him to marry her is to wait a year and then pursue him to Paris.\nHowever, en route to France, Marjorie meets a mysterious man aboard the Queen Mary.\nShe enjoys his company, he treats her well and speaks respectfully of her religious traditions, and he helps her locate Noel.\nIn Paris, Noel tells her how happy he is to see her, but does not notice when she is hungry or hurt.\nHe tells her that in his year in Paris he has not actually enrolled in school to study philosophy, and that he will return to theS.\nto take another stable writing job.\nHe offers to marry her, but Marjorie has realized that life with Noel will not make her happy, and that it would be possible for her to fall in love with someone else.\nShe returns to New York free of her infatuation with Noel, and quickly marries.\nShe no longer cares whether Noel would describe her as a "Shirley".\nThe novel concludes with an epilogue in the form of an entry in Wally Wronken\'s diary.\nWally idolized Marjorie as a young man, and meets her again 15 years after she marries.\nMarjorie has happily settled into a role as a religious suburban wife and mother.\nWally recalls the bright-eyed girl he once knew, and marvels at how ordinary Marjorie seems at 39.\nThe character name Airman is a translation to English of the Yiddish expression Luftmensch.