Cynthia Ozick's Essay 'A Drugstore In Winter'

Throughout a person’s lifetime, they have to deal with hard times, and they all have different ways to cope with those hard times. Everyone has very various means to deal with how they want to deal with the difficult times in their lives. In Cynthia Ozick’s essay “A Drugstore In Winter,” she writes about how she and her family coped with the effects of the Great Depression. Her family faced many obstacles during the depression, like their drugstore being shut down, but they survived by dealing with the difficulties. In the essay, she writes about how she faced many obstacles in her life, but how she used literature to cope with the depression. Ozick wrote about how talking to her close-knit community helped to deal with the hardships of her life. She had a particular way to help her endure a hard time by using literature, and books as her escape. Ozick suffered all throughout her early years, but with her suffering, she became a very successful writer. Ozick puts forth a more optimistic view of life in her essay.
Ozick writes about how her community and everyone in it was able to escape the Great Depression by talking to one another and staying close. She talks about how much her community do not let the depression get to them by always communicating with one another. Her father and mother owned a drugstore in their community, and they always talked to the …show more content…
In Ozick’s case, she used books to get through all of the things that happened to her during the Great Depression. Literature to her was everything, and let her get away from all of her problems. Ozick and her family coped with the Great Depression by sticking together with the community, because they were all close to each other. After all the suffering, Ozick finally realized that her experiences of difficulties made her a successful author. As a successful writer, she views life in a very optimistic