1955 highlights

In "1955," Gracie Mae has happiness and an understanding of life, but no commercial of financial success. Meanwhile Traynor is rich and is professionally successful, but doesn't have personal success. The song acts as a symbol for how Traynor cannot figure out how to gain happiness or understanding in life: "I've sung it and sung it, and I'm making forty thousand dollars a day offa it, and you know what, I don't have the faintest notion what that song means"(Walker 1955). A literal example of this is that Traynor is married to a woman that he doesn't love: "I married but it never went like it was supposed to. I never could squeeze any of my own life either into it or out of it. It was like singing somebody else's record. I copied the way it was sposed to be exactly but I never had a clue what marriage meant" (Walker 1955).