Attaining Beauty in an Ugly Life
The passage I chose to explicate is from Anzia Yezierska's, The Lost Beautifulness. The passage is located on pg. 1254 of the Norton Anthology of American Literature 1912-1945. I believe this passage represents the main character's and author's view of the Depression-era individual vs. society. It reads as follows:
"I'm sick of living like a pig with my nose to the earth, all the time only pinching and scraping for bread and rent. So long my Aby is with America, I want to make myself for an American. I could tear the stars out from heaven for my Aby's wish."
Her sunken cheeks were flushed and her eyes glowed with light as she gazed about her.
"When I see myself around the house how I fixed it up with my own hands, I forget I'm only a nobody. It makes me feel I'm also a person like Mrs. Preston. It lifts me with high thoughts."
"Why did n't you marry yourself to a millionaire? You always want to make yourself like Mrs. Preston who got......
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