Jewel devotes her life and to some extent sacrifices the lives of her husband and other children to her unexpected sixth child who has Down's Syndrome, or, as the specialist puts it to her, is a Mongoloid idiot. The world was not nearly as PC back in the early forties. Actually, the sacrifices that Jewel manipulates for Brenda Kay work out pretty well for all of them - except her husband. And it would have been better for him as well if he hadn't been a red-neck bigot.
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