Blondie by Dean Young

Author:Dean Young
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

When Dagwood first introduced Blondie to his father, their love was an obvious attraction of opposites.

At times Blondie and Dagwood’s relationship had a rocky start.

Dagwood was a rich, if awkward, man about town; Blondie was a poor—but beautiful—nobody.

But Dagwood remained loyally lovesick. It was Blondie—and no one else—that he wanted. The couple was determined to marry, but the Bumsteads would not have it. So in the winter of 1933, Dagwood embarked upon a historic and life-changing protest—a hunger strike.

Seeing the poor infatuated Dagwood take to his bed in starving dissent galvanized the country. The strike generated news stories, gossip column mentions, and thousands upon thousands of letters and telegrams from readers. One young man in Nebraska even initiated a copycat strike, defying his parents and his stomach in the name of love. Blondie was more popular than ever.

Meanwhile Dagwood was languishing, delirious and dreaming of his two great loves, Blondie—and food. His mind was filled with thoughts of stuffed turkeys, flying sandwiches, and parading desserts. It was a prophetic moment, a foreshadowing of the man he would become—obsessively in love and obsessively hungry.

Twenty-eight days, seven hours, eight minutes, and twenty-two seconds into the hunger strike, Dagwood’s parents relented, and gave him permission to marry his beloved Blondie—with the caveat that he would nonetheless be disinherited if he did so. Dagwood, glad to at least be eating again, accepted. The showdown with his parents not only proved him to be a worthy hero for the strip, it also accomplished the neat trick of doing away with the millionaire storyline, which frugal Chic Young felt was unseemly in light of the growing poverty in the country following the 1929 crash. That many of the movies of the day still dealt with the lifestyles of the rich and fabulous only served to make Dagwood more of a populist hero. And Blondie’s commitment—she stood by her man even as he grew leaner in body and billfold—attested to the fact that she was no gold-digger, but a woman deeply in love.

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