Summary of Rodney Dangerfield's It's Not Easy Bein' Me

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was born in an eighteen-room house owned by my mother’s sister Rose and her husband. After a couple of weeks, my mother took me back to her place in Jamaica, Queens, where we lived with my four-year-old sister, Marion, my mother’s mother, her three sisters, and a Swedish carpenter named Mack.
#2 I was raised by my mother, who was very cold. I never got a kiss, a hug, or a compliment. I wanted people to tell me that I was good, but instead, I heard laughter and applause.
#3 I had to make my own entertainment as a kid. I would listen to the voices below my window, and know what that meant. There was going to be a fight down there, and I would always identify with the loser.
#4 My mother was coldhearted and selfish, and her sisters weren’t much better. I remember being lied to by my aunt Pearlie when I was four. She said I could go to the movies with my sister, but when I came back out, she and Marion were gone. I stood there crying and yelling, Pearlie, I washed my hands and face real good.

Sujets

• Humor
• Adult
• Topic

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822503441
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Rodney Dangerfield's Its Not Easy Bein' Me
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was born in an eighteen-room house owned by my mother’s sister Rose and her husband. After a couple of weeks, my mother took me back to her place in Jamaica, Queens, where we lived with my four-year-old sister, Marion, my mother’s mother, her three sisters, and a Swedish carpenter named Mack.

#2

I was raised by my mother, who was very cold. I never got a kiss, a hug, or a compliment. I wanted people to tell me that I was good, but instead, I heard laughter and applause.

#3

I had to make my own entertainment as a kid. I would listen to the voices below my window, and know what that meant. There was going to be a fight down there, and I would always identify with the loser.

#4

My mother was coldhearted and selfish, and her sisters weren’t much better. I remember being lied to by my aunt Pearlie when I was four. She said I could go to the movies with my sister, but when I came back out, she and Marion were gone. I stood there crying and yelling, Pearlie, I washed my hands and face real good.

#5

I was four years old when I got my first laugh. One night when I finished my dinner, I said, I’m still hungry. My mother said, You’ve had sufficient. I told her, I didn’t even have any fish.

#6

I was ten when the Great Depression hit. My father arranged for us to live with his mother in the East Bronx, in a really poor and rough neighborhood. School was difficult, but I made sure I was a good boy that year.

#7

I moved to the Bronx with my mother and sister when I was seven years old. We lived in a rooming house in Far Rockaway, Long Island, near the ocean. My first summer there, I saw a kid I knew from the Bronx selling ice cream on the beach. That became my job for the next four summers.

#8

I had a difficult time adjusting to my new home. I was too poor for the neighborhood, and I never fit in. My mother took in two boarders, Max and his girlfriend Helene. Max was a gangster from Detroit, and I thought he was going to shoot someone.

#9

I felt inferior because I couldn't keep up with the other kids financially. I didn't have the money to play football in school, so I played a game called stoop. You throw a ball against the stoop and try to make it land where your opponent isn't.

#10

I had no guidance from my mother. The only advice she ever gave me was to never eat a frankfurter from the man with the orange umbrella. She was a kid herself, so what did she know.

#11

My mother and her sister took me to Atlantic City, where I saw my father with his girlfriend Lily. They yelled, Look at him! He’s a tramp! As a result, the crowd looked at me like it was my fault.

#12

I was always hustling to make some money because my mother never gave me any. I started delivering groceries when I was ten. The grocer gave me a choice: ten cents an hour or three cents for every order I delivered.