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I think the most compelling part of this story was when the author described the breakdown of a young woman the previous day that escalated into a fight with the woman in charge of trying to find jobs for all of these desperate women. Both women are in a state of absolute desperation although one has a job she too faces bleak despair every day. The young woman has come to the agency everyday for 8 months in hope of finding a job and the other is forced to try and find jobs for hundreds of women when there aren't any to be had. It was heartbreaking for the other women to observe that now the only thing left for this woman is to go to the streets and turn to prostitution.--Emma Peck | I think the most compelling part of this story was when the author described the breakdown of a young woman the previous day that escalated into a fight with the woman in charge of trying to find jobs for all of these desperate women. Both women are in a state of absolute desperation although one has a job she too faces bleak despair every day. The young woman has come to the agency everyday for 8 months in hope of finding a job and the other is forced to try and find jobs for hundreds of women when there aren't any to be had. It was heartbreaking for the other women to observe that now the only thing left for this woman is to go to the streets and turn to prostitution.--Emma Peck | ||
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| + | I was particularly struck by the last line, “It’s not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave” (149). Without hope, the girls were left with nothing. I simply cannot imagine feeling as if you have been stripped of your future, and even thinking that perhaps slavery is better than simple poverty. Would these women have really traded positions with 19th century plantation slaves? Maybe, maybe not, but the sentiment shows the power poverty has on people’s ideals. – Alice W | ||
==American Women Ask Eleanor Roosevelt for Help== | ==American Women Ask Eleanor Roosevelt for Help== | ||
