Water Under The Bridge Analysis

As most people know, getting into a new relationship can be difficult. Trying to get your in-laws to like you can be a challenge, and cause some anxiety. Our reading this week was to read stories that discussed the conflicts and difficulties seen when having a new family. These writings told the stories of women who struggled with being in a new lifestyle and their struggles they had to face between their in-laws. A couple of the stories, like “The Language of Family” and “The Food Factory” were about the difficulty of the women and learning the Turkish language in order to communicate with their new families. The other stories that we read were “Cherry Pie” and “Water Under the Bridge.” These stories were about the conflicts that the foreign wives faced in their families with their different lifestyles. These stories were very relatable for some of the things I have to deal with in my personal relationship with my in-laws. In the story “Water Under the Bridge,” was about a woman whose mother-in-law was very set in doing things her way that she paid no attention to how her daughter-in-law felt about doing things the way she always has. In this …show more content…
The mother-in-law in the story was so nice and caring to her daughter-in-law and helped her in so many ways. Carolina was struggling to be able to communicate with her new family because she couldn’t speak Turkish. Her mother-in-law was very understandable and taught her ways to learn Turkish easier. They had a great relationship and were able to communicate easily. When Carolina told Serpil that she couldn’t stay with her son any longer and she needed to go back to her family Serpil didn’t get mad, she understood. My mother-in-law is like a second mother to me, she gives me advise, asks about my schooling, and treats me as if I am her own. Although we do not have the conflict of a language barrier we have other conflicts that we deal