In the Nancy Drew books, Nancy meets a lot of different people. With a lot of them she becomes great friends. She promises to keep visiting them and she loves them so much she has to see them sometimes. But I have a question. These friends, these minor characters, are never mentioned again. What happened to friends forever? You might say that these visits are not mentioned in the book because they are unimportant to the story. But Nancy is so busy sleuthing all the time how does she have time to visit these friends! And Carolyn Keene describes Nancy's other daily endeavors, not always in very much detail, but she says what Nancy is up to. Nancy's got a pretty full schedule and it seems she doesn't have time for any of her old friends.
Let me use as an example The Secret of the Old Clock. Judy and her aunts Edna and Mary were really close to Nancy and Nancy said she would check on Judy and things. Well she never goes to see them after that book, does she? And even worse, the Hoover sisters! The Hoover sisters were so nice; I loved them! But Nancy probably never goes to see them again! The weird thing is that Nancy isn't the type of person to just say, "All right, the case that you were involved in is solved, see you never again, have a nice life." It just doesn't make sense. She would at least want to check in on them!
Oh well. That is my rant.
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