Bread Givers Book 3 Essay

Book three of the novel “Bread Givers,” written by Anzia Yezierska is set in New York. The story revolves around Sara Smolinsky, her family and the struggles they face in their daily lives. The main conflict in book three is Sara’s guilt for leaving her family and pursuing her career without seeing them for six years. For example, when she comes back to see her family, she realizes she is too late. Her mother is dying. Sara feels horrible that she didn’t come to see her mother and spend more time with her. She knows that she should’ve come to see her mother instead of investing so much time with school. Then, her mother dies a couple days later. She decides to stay and visit her father, Reb Smolinsky, often but doesn’t visit him after he gets married again only thirty days after her mother died. A couple months later, she sees Reb again but he’s working. She feels guilty for not supporting him and giving him money in his time of need. To see him working to get money for his greedy wife made her feel terrible. In the end, Reb can’t stand being in the same house as his wife and decides he wants to leave. He doesn’t know where to so Sara decides to take him in and let
Many cultures, such as Sara’s, is like that. The men of the household depend on women to clean the house, cook the food and take care of the children. The only difference between these people and Reb is the fact that the men make a living to support their families. Reb, however, depends on his family to make a living on top of everything else they do. This is where the line is drawn. These men understand that women can’t handle doing everything and also work to earn money. Since Reb is so religious, he believes women can’t go to heaven without men. But the men have to be religious, so he spends all of his time praying and reading the Torah. He doesn’t comprehend the fact that he needs to support his family and let them be the only ones who carry the