Who is Marsha Zelenko from Marjorie Morningstar and what is their importance? Marjorie_Morningstar_(novel) English & Literature Marsha Zelenko | Marjorie Morningstar

Marsha is a free-spirited Jewish girl, not having grown up with the privileges that Marjorie has enjoyed and who remains Marjorie's biggest supporter and advocate in her pursuit of a career in the theatre. Marsha introduces Marjorie to Noel Airman, once both girls have obtained summer jobs at a children's camp across the lake from the adult resort at which Noel is the entertainment director. Marsha lacks the beauty and cultural background of Marjorie and, ultimately, marries a much older man, an attorney who can provide financial security for herself and her parents. It is Marsha who arranges a dinner party to which she invites Marjorie and Milton Schwartz, a young lawyer in her husband's firm, hoping to find the correct husband for Marjorie. Her plan works. Though Marsha has not married a man with whom she shares a passionate love, she is, nevertheless, comfortable and secure in her subu