Orleana's Life Analysis

Life is an ongoing challenge and gift that was given to humanity; both a gift and a curse we must struggle through the turmoil of this world and try to find the brightside. We are shaped by experiences, molded by our emotions and surroundings until our final days. Orleana, a woman who grew up in the great depression in a little town called pearl, endured many trials and tribulations throughout her lifetime. The era in which she was brought up was one of great religious revival, and the overwhelming in-pour of traveling preachers in Pearl was a factor that would impact her life in a way that she would only later realize. She would meet a man, the ever-religious Nathan price, who would sway her towards marriage along with the pressure of
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We all are, and that is what change both of their lives forever.
Orleana grew up in the great depression sharing a house with many family members. Her father, an Optometrist by trade, was beginning to realize that during hard times people’s eyes get miraculously better. As a result they had to keep a business as a grocer on the side. Her mother died in childbirth and her aunt was the closest figure to resemble one. Orleana’s father was a decent man. In her own words,”he drank and cursed but not in any way that mattered (p.193).” he taught her to cook and otherwise let her and her cousins run wild. The only thing that he held against her was her becoming a Free Will Baptist. Though her and her family barely scraped by, she had a decent childhood. It was that preacher boy who “,fell upon her unclaimed soul like a dog on a bone (p.192)” that would disrupt this relatively happy life. He began eating dinner with her family, spending time with her, and reading scripture to her until her aunt thought she might as well marry him if they were gonna feed him-that was what he was after, after all. Orleana, 17 and not knowing what to do took a look at other women such as her aunt who