Bread Givers (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Anzia Yezierska
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: New York City’s Lower East Side
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Tradition, Twentieth century, New York City, Marriage, Poverty or poor people, Immigration or emigration, Jews or Jewish life, Women’s rights
- Locales: New York, NY
Characters Discussed
Sara Smolinski, the youngest of four daughters of Reb Smolinski and his wife. As early as age ten, Sara is intelligent enough to understand the unhappiness and frustration imposed on her Jewish immigrant family by the poverty and squalor of their Hester Street tenement and the zealous domination of her Old World father. Sara also sees the failure of her sisters to free themselves from the domestic tyranny of their father. With a strong will and sense of purpose, she rebels against the old values and follows her “Americanized” way to personal and social...
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