The Role Of Family In James Alan Mcpherson's A Loaf Of Bread

Many families have certain roles and traditions that are followed by being taught or just by habit. Within those families are certain roles that are followed or taken on. Some families are patriarchal meaning that the man or father is more dominant or in charge and some families are matriarchal being that the mother is in charge or more dominant and in control. For some families these certain roles fit the family perfectly with not much of an issue which can balance out the family. But unfortunately for other families these roles break the household down making the household unbalanced. And this can cause the family to lack in some areas such as understanding, communication, or forgiveness.
In the story A Loaf of Bread, written by James Alan McPherson, The Green family is a patriarchal family and they struggle with decisions made by Harold Green, the father, who does not want to lower or change his prices, not even for the

The only different thing was the characters. Mr. Green is like my mom. They both have a stubborn personality and it will take so much for them to change their mind and their opinion. Their pride is too big and their ego is too high and that has a negative effect on the family as a whole. Green’s children are like me and my father, who will not speak up and voice our opinion. We will just sit and basically suffer as everything plays out. Lastly, Green’s wife is like my brother because in the story unlike the children the wife tells him to simply just lower the prices for his children and he considers it but decides not to. Her opinion is like my brother and how he will speak up on some things that my mom does that he feel is not right. And lastly the angry riot in the story represents how my father, brother and I really feel about my mother. We are all angry of her actions and her attitude especially when we try and voice our own opinion and