Bread Givers Literary Analysis

In Anzia Yezierska’s novel entitled Bread Givers, there is much conflict between the father Reb Smolinsky and his daughters. During the course of this paper conflict with the culture and a father who chose to not work studying the holy book called the Torah as well as other holy books ended up devastating his family into poverty. The move to America from the old country Reb Smolinsky took all of his holy books and anything he felt he needed causing his daughters and wife to leave behind items whether they were valuable or sentimental to them.
The oldest daughter fell in love with a man named Berel Berenstein and the man even wanted to marry her without a dowry. The father on the other hand didn’t at first mind this marriage as long as Berel paid for the wedding and set him up for business as well. This …show more content…
She graduated college and was happy to make a living in the school system, thus making her life a little easier. Her happiness ends quickly by finding out her mother was dying. She was sked by her mother to take care of her father after she was gone. Then after his wife dies, Reb remarries to a shrew of a woman who felt she would be able to use the daughters for income and causes them to stop speaking to their father. It is amazing how much a person can take before they have had enough and stand up for themselves. The daughters would have had better lives if they had done this earlier in their lives.
The new stepmother even tried to cause problems for Sarah, but that ended up causing Sarah happiness instead of sorrow. She ended up falling for Hugo the principal at her school. Unfortunately the cycle doesn’t end in happiness as one would think from reading fantasy stories and all, but rather with the youngest daughter fulfilling her mother’s dying