Yezierska

in America, when women began to actually make social and political advancements in the early 20th century, their newfound liberty exceeded the independence that women of Old World cultures received and this if evident in the book Breadgivers Anna Yezierska. In the early half of the 20th century, a women's role in America was not only controlled by the society, but it was also profoundly defined by her culture. In Breadgivers, the daughter of Jewish immigrants must battle with

Reb Smolinsky, Jewish women are servants to men and a piece of property to be married off, not educated. The “common sense” provided here may favor one gender over another, but if it is accepted, women consent to be governed by the “common sense.” Yezierska expresses how far this consent will go when Mashah is presented with the choice to pursue her piano-player lover or remain complacent under her father’s will. After receiving her warning, “Mashah, weak, dumb, helpless with the first great sorrow

Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska is a story primarily about a young girl Sara Smolinsky who comes from poverty, rejection, and countless amount of failures faced as a child. Throughout the novel Sara Smolinsky unluckily never actually gets to thrive as a grown-up due to the continuous amount of obstacles that she is confronted by in the world and time that she lives in. Sara Smolinsky, who is the protagonist throughout the novel, happens to be one of four girls in her family. Out of her 3 other sisters

Kinds, both internal, through her thoughts, and external, through her relationship with her mother. In Children of Loneliness, by Anzia Yezierska, Rachel struggles with the generational differences to a degree in which she indirectly dehumanizes her own family. She “[jumped] up from the table in disgust; ‘I’ll never be able to stand it here with you people’(Yezierska, 178).” She refers to her own family as “you people” as if they are a different species or race, even though they are her parents who

she needs to go through many hardships before reaching her best point of wisdom. She realizes that as an immigrant, she will always have a label and she tries to make the best out of it by doing what she knows. When introducing the narrative, Yezierska starts off speaking from the point of view of “one of the millions of immigrants” who long for understanding in America. She describes the immigrants feelings towards America as “beating their hearts out at your gates for a breath of understanding

American and I is Anzia Yezierska short story where she talks about her struggle on adjusting to American life. She immigrated to the United States to experience a new hope of life that is not available in Russia. For her, America is a land of leaving hope, to constantly work to be able to survive, and to have freedom. However, she was unskilled, untrained, wasn’t eligible to work in a factory. She was forced to work for an Americanized family, as she began to work, she soon found out that she is

country to have the same opportunity, no matter who we are, or were where from, or what we look like, or who we love’. The land of opportunities and hope no longer let’s people accomplish their dreams, but it only lets its own people to do so. Anzia Yezierska is a Poland novelist who wrote “America and I”. the story is about her experience of living in America when she came from another country. Anzia was full of dreams, she believed

In the novel Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska, the characters have conflicts of family agreement. Members of the Smolinsky family have issues with getting along. Anzia Yezierska bases the Smolinsky family off of the 1920’s in Lower East Side New York. Sara and Reb Smolinsky have many of the same characteristics, but they end up having different causes due to their dissimilar perspectives. Reb and Sara show different perspectives while Shena’s funeral is occurring, when Sara visits her father, or when

immigrant you may have the same views, but they can hold a stronger meaning of the term, for example Americans have strived to accomplish their goals, to do better than themselves, and move up in the social class system. Bread Givers, by Aniza Yezierska is a novel that shows how immigrants try to strive for the American dream. The American dream being: the act of freedom,

3. Anzia Yezierska contrasts the ideals of the New World and the Old World through the characters of Reb and Sara Smolinsky. Reb, a holy man set in his rigid ways, is a true embodiment of the Old World values. He followed the belief that men were the only people that counted with God, and therefore women had to serve the men to their satisfaction in order to gain admittance into Heaven. His belief was that a wife should be someone “who can cook for him, and wash for him, and carry the burden of his