Eleanor Roosevelt was an interesting person, and in some aspects I am not sure if that is good or bad. She seemed to step out of the social norms for women and class during her time, and I do think that this is what made her an extrordinary person. Even after attending boarding school she was not really prepared to be an elite woman in New York. Then she married her fifth cousin, and I want to assume this was partially something that was expected of her. Maybe she did it to fit in because she had not really fit in before. Some of the things she did that I think were more typical of a woman included staying with her cheating husband and caring for him when he was sick and later handicapped.
More interestingly was that she stood out as a great advocator. She spoke up for the war, women's sufferage, worker's rights, and even tried to boost soldiers' morale. What interested me was that she visited bases, became soldiers' pen pal, and tried to be thier voice in congress when they could not be. What made her think of these things, and why did she decide to take action in this manner? I do admire her for fighting to let more Jewish children refugees in the US, but I wonder what sparked her to do this? After learning about this truely extrordinary woman, I do have to that America is better for having had her.
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