Homeless Women Analysis

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In my opinion, I am very lucky to have had a roof over my head for my entire life, so far. My parents are what I consider to be very hard working people and I believe myself to be lucky for having them always pay the bills and provide not only a house for me to live in, but also the life that I have become accustomed too. By no means is my family incredibly wealthy, but in my opinion and in comparison to the women in the article “Fear, Romance and Transience in the Lives of Homeless Women”, my family is significantly better off. This article focuses on the lives of three women who are homeless and explores their struggles and triumphs of the life that they live. The reason that I believe myself to be currently better off than the women in the article is because I have a house to go home to every night. Although these women have at one point have had house with a roof …show more content…

Jean, one of the women, mentioned that homelessness was romantic (Freud, 1999, p. 455). “For Jean, ‘homelessness’ was romantic because of the dangers, not in spite of them” (Freud, 1999, p. 455). This is another example of how the women were inspirational to me. Jean looked at homelessness in a way that I would have never looked at it. To me, because of my perceptions of homelessness and what I have seen is as, I would not consider it to be romantic. What I am used to seeing are people who have not bathed in a very long time, who are begging on the street for money, who have mental or physical disabilities, and this is not what I consider romantic. Romance to me, is getting flowers delivered to you, and getting swept off my feel by the love of my life. This is because my favorite genre of movies is romance and the movies that I have seen have shaped my perceptions of what romance should be like. That is why I think that it is incredible that Jean can see the beautiful in what I perceive to be the

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