Brewster Place

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The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor portrayed the lives of African American residents of Brewster Place. Brewster Place is a community separated by a wall that divided the residents of Brewster Place from the other neighboring. The wall the novel mentioned has a significant meaning to the residents of Brewster Place: home, strength, and destruction.

Everyone in the novel all come to Brewster Place after some type of lost or despaired. Mattie Michael as the main character in the novel, decided to abandon her son Basil after all the struggles she been through. Lucielia Louise Turner, Basil’s childhood friend who also came to Brewster Place after her child’s death. After these downfall the women in the novel experienced, they all choose

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