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Gränbystaden. Menu All All. Sign In. Jump to Summaries 4 Synopsis 1 Edit. Joy is the story of the title character, who rose to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty. Joy Mangano has always been fascinated by creating things, This pursuit was always supported emotionally by her maternal grandmother, Mimi. Joy feels that lack of practical support has led to others making fortunes on ideas she came up with years ago but could not act upon manufacturing.
Despite being broke, Joy is the person in her extended family to whom everyone has always turned, in the process forgoing her own life, including not having attended college to help see her parents through their divorce. She works in an unsatisfying job as an Eastern Airlines ticket clerk; and lives with her mother Terry who spends all day in bed watching soap operas; her ex-husband Tony, a less than successful aspiring Latino Tom Jones wannabe; and their two children.
Added to this mix is her father Rudy, the owner of a failing heavy-duty garage, which is managed by Joy's older half-sister Peggy, with whom she has somewhat of a strained relationship, and for which Joy does the books. Sharon, Rudy's latest girlfriend who has just dumped him, drops him off on Joy's doorstep, making Joy's home life even more complicated as Rudy does not get along with either Terry or Tony.
Joy begins to feel buried by her life, in the process her childhood dream of making things seemingly getting farther and farther away. As such, Joy decides to make some changes in her life, and expects the unquestioning practical support of her family. Those changes include manufacturing a new product of her design; what she chooses this time around being a self-wringing mop.
That support also includes being able to pitch the idea to Rudy's current wealthy girlfriend, Trudy. Even if she does get to the manufacturing stage, Joy will have to battle the narrow minds of business executives in marketing her product, that is unless she can find a way to get into the homes of the American public in one fell swoop.
Joy has to decide if she will "pick up the gun" as Trudy asked in their initial investment meeting in dealing with an especially troublesome legal issue. Joy Mangano is a bright, energetic young woman with a complicated personal life. She is divorced with two children, her ex-husband lives in her basement, her mother lives upstairs and just watches soap operas all day, and her father divorced from her mom for 17 years now is now also living with her.
Joy designs a revolutionary new mop and this leads to all sorts of adventures, good and bad. In , Joy Mangano is a divorced mother of two, working as a booking agent for Eastern Airlines. She lives with her two young children, her mother, Terri, her maternal grandmother, Mimi, and her ex-husband, Tony. Joy's divorced parents fight whenever her father, Rudy, shows up at her house.
Joy's older half-sister, Peggy, is an overachiever who constantly humiliates Joy in front of her children for her failed marriage. Peggy and Rudy are very close, and Terri spends all day in bed watching soap operas, leaving Joy to run the household.
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Only Mimi, and Joy's best friend, Jackie, encourage her to pursue her inventing ambitions.. Her parents are divorced, and her mother and father fight whenever her father shows up at her home. Joy's older half-sister, Peggy Elisabeth Rohm , is an overachiever who constantly humiliates Joy in front of her children. Terri spends all-day lying-in bed watching soap operas as a means of escape from her life, leaving Joy to run the household.
Only Joy's grandmother and her best friend Jackie Dascha Polanco encourage her to pursue her inventing ambitions and become a strong successful woman.
Mimi knew that Joy was a creator and inventor since her early childhood. Joy was convinced that she didn't need a man in her life to be successful. Mimi wanted Joy to have a life of her own, instead she got mired in the soap opera of her own family's life. Joy had created a dog collar and a flea collar as a kid, but Terri never got her a patent lawyer to guide her properly. All the family members live in the same house and mooch off Joy's meager earnings.
Rudy runs a garage and Joy helps him with the books and accounts, while Peggy helps Rudy in running the business. Rudy and Tony share the basement.
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Tony was a singer, when Joy met her through Jackie. Joy was attracted to Tony as he was a dreamer just like herself. Rudy was not supportive of her marriage to Tony, and made snide remarks at her ceremony, and gave her odds at his toast. Further along, Tony and Joy have 2 kids, but Tony is useless around the house, and is frequently drunk, and his singing gigs don't earn any money for the house.
Soon thereafter they get divorced. After divorcing his third wife, Joy's father starts dating Trudy Isabella Rossellini , a wealthy Italian widow with some business experience. While on Trudy's boat, Joy drops a glass of red wine, attempts to mop up the mess, and cuts her hands on the broken glass while wringing the mop.