Dorothy Day Research Paper

Dorothy Day and her family consisted of 7 people. There were 5 siblings then her mother Grace and father John. Dorothy was the 3rd and was born on November 8th 1897. Before her was Donald in 1895 and Sam Houston in 1896, then following Dorothy's birth was Della in 1899 and John in 1912. All of the children except for Della became journalists, even John was a newspaperman as well. John Day was born in Tennessee in 1870 and was a man of scottish and irish descent and for his wife Grace Satterlee, she was born in Marlboro, New York in 1870. Then there was Aunt Cassie, she was Grace's sister, they were all very close. And that was Dorothy's family. Pg. 4,5,6,7
For the Day family they had some untraditional thoughts and ideas. For instance, John …show more content…
Barrett, she discovered her praying on her knees, Dorothy then said “I felt such a burst of love toward Mrs. Barrett that I have never forgotten” Another friendship that was sparked up was with Peggy Baird. At first she was baffled at Dorothy for her sexual temptations but they soon began to become good friends, on one occasion she had Dorothy strip down so Peggy could sketch her. Pg. 14,35

For Dorothy and her conversions she began to change when she decided to become baptized and confirmed when the rest of her family has done neither. She decided to become apart of the church, which was the first for her family, her mother, father and other siblings were not religious, and she did this at a young age as well. Also another conversion she did was when she was a mother. It says how she has had the most joyful 4 years of her life, it was a time of love, motherhood and conversion. She finally had her child that she always wanted and things were looking up. Pg. 15,69 Another example of beautiful writings is “The Eleventh Virgin.”Dorothy writes about how woman cannot take a man and how it is physically impossible to do so. Another beautiful writings of Dorothy Day she had one book called “The Long Loneliness” she would say all the things she loved about Forest and how he never knew it, she continued to write how much she loved him in the book. Pg.