Lizbet Cantu
English-2341
Professor Maricela Garcia
22 February 2016
New York Day Women
In New York Day Women, written by Edwidge Danticat, the story tells the journey of a daughter secretly following her mother in New York when she goes out for lunch break. It is through this following around where she learns from her mother and realizes about her own self and even undergoes a change at the end of the story. The story is told in a semi-conversation between the daughter’s engraved memories of what her mother would tell her, and her own thoughts responding to her. At the same time, Danticat mentions in her interview she feels an insider/outsider type of relationship with her country Haiti which she feel she belongs to at times and oftentimes …show more content…
Whenever she would obtain gifts from her mother, she would, “bury in the garage or give to Goodwill.” (Danticat, 240) This conveys an outsider relationship because the narrator wouldn’t appreciate the gifts coming from her mother, gifts which obtained details on her daughters such as her size, “contemplating my size.” (Danticat, 240) And also demonstrated that the mother thought about the narrator on daily basis wherever she went. But this bond, or outsider relationship, would also turn around to an insider the moment she saw her mother at the hot-dog stand, she thought about her mother’s health, “With her blood pressure, she shouldn’t eat anything sodium. She has to be careful with her heart this day woman.” (Danticat, 240) Meaning she thought about her mother and, in a manner, details of her life such as health. Also, the narrator seems to be bothered when her mother didn’t attend her “Parent-Teacher Association meeting when I was in school.” (Danticat, 242) which showed her feelings of need which only are fulfilled by a parent. This builds on that insider relationship where they both live on the same place at the same time and enjoy peace together as Danticat mentions in her …show more content…
This could portray the same feelings Danticat owns at the thought of her own country Haiti which she mentions she feels to be at home at given times, but also seems to return back to her country, detaching herself from the country she solely, once belonged to. The narrator’s thoughts, actions and feelings vary constantly which is the reason on why she often has a different relationship with her mother or Haiti. She often doesn’t seem to understand her mother until after learning from her by secretly following her which changes her way of being. This builds more on their insider relationship, still clinging onto that outsider relationship here and there. Sometimes the narrator seems to not care, she’s inconsiderate and that’s the reason why she can’t have an insider relationship with her mother and Haiti, but whenever she does the opposite, she changes, and she cares, and therefore; she has an insider relationship. In the end, conveying a dual relationship between her, her mother and her
English-2341
Professor Maricela Garcia
22 February 2016
New York Day Women
In New York Day Women, written by Edwidge Danticat, the story tells the journey of a daughter secretly following her mother in New York when she goes out for lunch break. It is through this following around where she learns from her mother and realizes about her own self and even undergoes a change at the end of the story. The story is told in a semi-conversation between the daughter’s engraved memories of what her mother would tell her, and her own thoughts responding to her. At the same time, Danticat mentions in her interview she feels an insider/outsider type of relationship with her country Haiti which she feel she belongs to at times and oftentimes …show more content…
Whenever she would obtain gifts from her mother, she would, “bury in the garage or give to Goodwill.” (Danticat, 240) This conveys an outsider relationship because the narrator wouldn’t appreciate the gifts coming from her mother, gifts which obtained details on her daughters such as her size, “contemplating my size.” (Danticat, 240) And also demonstrated that the mother thought about the narrator on daily basis wherever she went. But this bond, or outsider relationship, would also turn around to an insider the moment she saw her mother at the hot-dog stand, she thought about her mother’s health, “With her blood pressure, she shouldn’t eat anything sodium. She has to be careful with her heart this day woman.” (Danticat, 240) Meaning she thought about her mother and, in a manner, details of her life such as health. Also, the narrator seems to be bothered when her mother didn’t attend her “Parent-Teacher Association meeting when I was in school.” (Danticat, 242) which showed her feelings of need which only are fulfilled by a parent. This builds on that insider relationship where they both live on the same place at the same time and enjoy peace together as Danticat mentions in her …show more content…
This could portray the same feelings Danticat owns at the thought of her own country Haiti which she mentions she feels to be at home at given times, but also seems to return back to her country, detaching herself from the country she solely, once belonged to. The narrator’s thoughts, actions and feelings vary constantly which is the reason on why she often has a different relationship with her mother or Haiti. She often doesn’t seem to understand her mother until after learning from her by secretly following her which changes her way of being. This builds more on their insider relationship, still clinging onto that outsider relationship here and there. Sometimes the narrator seems to not care, she’s inconsiderate and that’s the reason why she can’t have an insider relationship with her mother and Haiti, but whenever she does the opposite, she changes, and she cares, and therefore; she has an insider relationship. In the end, conveying a dual relationship between her, her mother and her