Chapter 80 chapter 2

It was 1962, Hosse was a freshman and Katie Anderson was a senior.The girl from Oak Ping, a suburb of Chicago, had a happy and unhappy childhood.Katie's father owned a small air-conditioning and heating equipment company in the small town of his hometown. The family was rich and lived a decent life.Katie remembers that when she was very young, her mother didn't have to go out to work. She just did the housework and took good care of Katie and her two brothers.Then the father left home for another woman.After the divorce, my mother took a job with United Airlines at Chicago Midway Airport.Soon, my father got married again in Oak Plains, but my mother was a widow and never married again.She is lonely, depressed, and silent all day long.

Katie knew from her mother that divorce was the greatest misfortune in a woman's life, and she hated her father for it, and hardly had anything to do with him anymore.The divorce of her parents also left a lifelong pain on Katie's young heart. From elementary school to middle school, she has been depressed and alone, without many friends. In 1959, Katie Anderson was a freshman in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Southern Illinois University. After class, she often worked at the school radio station.There, Katie learned to write and direct radio and TV dramas, and also rebuilt her self-confidence. In the summer of 1962, she returned home to sign up for the competition and was elected "Miss Oak Plains" that year.

Or maybe it's the similarities in the two men's personalities that bring José and Katie together.In fact, no matter how lonely a person looks, deep down in his heart, he longs to love and be loved.This pair of young people is like dry wood and fire, and they are soon fused into one by passionate love. There are of course other reasons for their combination.For Jose Monadez, marrying a white woman was a step closer to his "American Dream."After all, ethnic minorities are ethnic minorities. If they want to make a living under the Stars and Stripes, they must first be recognized and accepted by the mainstream of American society and let themselves enter the mainstream of society.Besides, Katie is not an ordinary white woman, and her father can be regarded as a person in the business world.

And Katie Anderson was drawn to a deeper aspect of Hosse that was not understood or appreciated by the young people around her.Husse is ambitious and down-to-earth. In particular, his perseverance is so strong that he can endure hardships that ordinary people cannot bear.Katie is confident that Jose will succeed. Marrying José and Katie wasn't easy. In the United States in the early 1960s, "White Only" (White Only) signs were everywhere, and discrimination against people of color was common.José and Katie were a sight to behold in the conservative town of Capodele, holding hands on the Southern Illinois University campus.Passers-by blatantly stopped, stared at the "mixed couple", and even pointed fingers and talked a lot, without hiding their astonished expressions.

The pressure also comes from the families of both parties.Naturally, the Anderson family didn't want their only daughter to find a son-in-law who was not sleazy.The fact that Katie's parents were divorced is contrary to the religious beliefs of the Monadez family.However, nothing can stop this rebellious young man and woman. In the summer of 1963, when Katie received a bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University, she immediately held a secret wedding with José, and added a letter to her name. Spanish surname - Monadez. After marriage, Hosse dropped out of Southern Illinois University and went to New York with Katie, not only because the young Mrs. Monadez wanted to develop in the broadcasting and television industry, but also to escape the deep-rooted racial prejudice in the small town of Capo delle .Jose Monadez studied at City University of New York and Queens College.Not only did Katie fail to find a job that matched her major, but in order to help Hosse complete her studies, she also gave up her plan to continue her master's degree and found a job in a small school.

In 1967, Jose Monadez graduated from Queens College and obtained an accountant license, and then joined a large multinational auditing company Cobb-Lebrand.Two years later, he was sent to Chicago to audit a client called Leon Containers.The boss of the company appreciated José's shrewdness and management ability, and hired him as the chief accountant of Leon Container with a high salary.Hoser moved back to Illinois with his family—Katie and his son, Joseph Lyle Monadez, nicknamed Lyle, who had just turned one year old.Katie became a full-time housewife at home and never worked again. It took only one year for Hoser to turn the Leon Container Company back from the dead into profitability, and he was logically appointed as the company's president.However, he resigned the following year due to disagreement with the chairman.

In 1971, Jose Monadez moved to Hertz as the executive director of the rental car department.The family then moved back to New Jersey on the East Coast.At the end of the year, Katie gave birth to a second son, Eric, for the Monardez family.Two years later, Hosse was promoted to chief financial officer of Hertz Corporation. In 1979, 35-year-old Jose Monardez was appointed president of the company's international division. Hose had a stellar track record at Hertz, but unfortunately he also had a reputation for being overly demanding and domineering.Perhaps because Hosse himself is a minority, he is particularly harsh on his white subordinates, and he often mocks and humiliates white colleagues who make mistakes at work in public.But on the other hand, Hosse wanted to be accepted by Europeans very much, so he tried his best to imitate whites in dress, speech and behavior.He asked his colleagues in the company to call him "Joe" according to the European and American pronunciation, instead of the South American Spanish "Jose"-Jose.For these reasons, in 1980, Jose Monadez was transferred to RCA Audio-Visual Equipment Company under Hertz.

Hosse is also a master at home, no matter how big or small, he has the final say, and sometimes he doesn't even ask Katie's opinion at all.In fact, since they got married, Katie has given José a lot of freedom.Hosse had had countless mistresses in his life, and the one with whom he spent the longest time was a businesswoman named Louise.The pretty girl with dark brown hair often travels with Jose on business trips, going out together in restaurants, hotels or entertainment venues.But Hosse neither thought of leaving Katie, nor did he plan to end his relationship with Louise, he was just very careful not to show himself the slightest bit of tell. In 1986, before José left RCA Audiovisual Equipment, Katie finally found out about the affair he and Lois had concealed for nearly a decade, which nearly drove Mrs. Monadès to her death.Although Husse tried his best to finally change Katie's heart, she suffered from severe neurasthenia and depression.