Home economics.(Roar of the Crowd)(Letter to the editor)

Antonya Nelson goes to great lengths to describe all the nice things she did for her housekeeper and her housekeeper's family, on which she kept very careful score--the limo ride for her children, the help with government forms, and so on ["The Easier Life," March 2008]. Yet the article smacks of noblesse oblige. All these are things that Nelson's wealth and social position made possible for her, at the cost of no particular personal sacrifice or discomfort. In fact, when faced with the prospects of real discomfort, which would have resulted from taking someone less fortunate into her home, …