The Snap of a Bean The bean was gradually being torn apart, just like the girl who slowly tore herself apart to fit in to society. Lisa Parker’s “Snapping Beans,” demonstrates how an individual can become divergent to her old accustomed ways. The snapping beans symbolizes the girl, since she has to break herself to indulge society. In the poem, the girl went to the north to pursue her college aspirations, only to be influenced by society that her country ways were old and that alcohol, nose rings, Buddhism, and poetry about sex were the new ways. When her grandma asked how school was, the girl reviewed her time in college, having a dreadful feeling of actually liking society’s ways. Her friends were eccentric when compared to
