Aunty said, “You guys should go to sleep early because I said so.” This conflict is person vs. person because there aunty came from nowhere and be bossy to them. At school, they couldn’t concentrate because they were thinking many ways to kick there aunty out of
This is how you thank me for getting you a man when you’re such a dried-up old maid that no one want to give a look on you.” Giving in to the demands of her father, Bessie marries Zalmon, the fish market owner, and raises his children. Is this the thanks Bessie gets after handing all of her hard earned money to her father? Bessie does not get the life in which she had once dreamed and continues to live in the same small, poor, dirty community. As for Sara, the youngest of the children, she adjusted to the new world and its offerings. She did not agree with how her father treated
This is for you. For you, Ma. I love you.”" Dolores chants over and over as she sends off her letter to college. This is where her new life really begins. Dolores' life transition after going to college and meeting Kippy was both negative and positive.
“Bread Givers” Sara’s father, Moses is an old fashioned, self centered selfish man who brings his beliefs, culture, religion, and costumes to the New World. Coming from Poland as Jewish immigrants to a neighborhood in the Lower East Side tenement in New York City, Moses an Orthodox rabbi, only worries are about the study of the Torah. Even though they have no money to pay rent, and his entire family is struggling for money to buy a piece of bread, he puts no effort into overcoming the financial difficulties his four daughters and wife are living. Nevertheless, Sara and her four sisters aspire to the American dream. My understanding of gender roll is that Moses underestimates women and thinks they are inferior to men.
The boys of the family were always encouraged to do well but the girls were always told by the father they would never amount to much as they weren’t very bright and it didn’t matter anyway, so were never supported/helped. Schooling was a struggle and was at times bullied by bigger girls. She was repeatedly told by a teacher in her primary school years that she was useless and would never amount to much unless she pulled her socks up and made an effort. Secondary schooling followed the same pattern. She wanted to be a teacher/engineer but her father scoffed at that idea so she left school at 15 to work in an office as a clerical worker.
He thinks with the lodge money for his wife’s death, Zalmon has become a rich man and it would be a good chance to marry off Bessie. Bessie however is shocked on hearing this and says she hates the smell of fish. If Zalmon was the last man on earth, she wouldn’t marry him. When Bessie sees that Zalmon’s youngest son, Dave is burning with fever and really needs love and affection of a mother figure, she decides to marry despite never liking
When Susanna is held after class by her teacher to discuss why she is the only senior not going on to college, she tries to reach out for support from her teacher, by explaining that she's not a druggie but she is concerned about ending up like her mother. The teacher does not hear this and claims that there are more options for women today. Susanna is trying to open up and seek some guidance, but the only solution she gets is that she is to start acting like everyone else. This part reveals how secluded and trapped Susanna feels. Nobody seems to understand her; even her parents don't know what to do with her.
I am willing to give up my spare time to set a good example for my family by going to college. The only thing that annoys me the most is when you hear girls out there talking about how they could not finish high school because they were teenage mothers. A little tip is I was a teenage mother and graduated from high school. I had a son and was pregnant for my daughter while I was going to school and I graduated. I was working, taking care of my son as well as going to school.
They consider her a burden, but have found a use for her, marry her off to the Mr Hathaway so they could keep him as a business partner. Alice Kingsleigh, on the other hand comes from a wealthy family. She is nineteen years old and the expectation of the society in which she lives expects her to get married, an unwanted marriage. Emily Grierson is the final heroine. She is much like Alice in the sense that she comes from a wealthy family, but there is one key difference from the other two heroines, her father does not want her to get married.
Josephine Alibrandi argues with her mother about her visiting her grandmother after school, her school behaviour, her mother’s personal life, her mother’s relationship with men other than her father and her own relationship with Jacob Coote. These are all the issues that teenagers express via arguments to their parents. Another association with adolescence is peer pressure. Throughout the novel, Josephine is pressured by her friends to do something which she believes isn’t right. An example of this is the walk-a-thon where Josephine is put in charge of taking care of the back of the group but she abandons her duty as her friends convince her into skipping school to meet a celebrity.