Women In Brewster Place

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In the Novel “Women of Brewster Place,” the author Gloria Naylor presents several stories of women living in Brewster place. She highlights the personal struggles of each and every character to show how complex relationships are and how the relationships help them survive in Brewster place. Some of the most important female relationships that are illustrated in this novel would be Mattie and Etta, Kiswana and Cora, and Theresa and Lorraine. All three of those relationships represent the struggles of living in Brewster place and how they all need someone to depend on to feel at ease in a place they would call home. One of the most important relationships in the novel is the relationship between Mattie and Etta. Mattie and Etta had known …show more content…

In the Novel, both female lived completely different lives. Kiswana was a rich girl who used to live in a middle class neighborhood known as Linden Hills and Cora was a doll obsessed child who uses men for her own benefit; to give birth to children. Kiswana is a strong advocate for African Americans and wants to create a petition to help fix the homes in Brewster Place while Cora wanted nothing but to live watching her favorite shows on TV and trying to tame her wild children. Cora had no interest in how to improve the life of her children nor did she wanted to improve the living style she was in. But thanks to Kiswana, Cora finally came to her senses and tries to create a better life for her children to make up for what she lost in her childhood. One day Kiswana persuaded Cora to bring her children to a shakespeare play and at first Cora was irritated of the fact that she couldn’t understood what the actors were saying but eventually she came to love the story and everything about it. She then reminisces about the life she used to have and how she wanted her children to be better. “Sonya wouldn’t be little forever—she’d have no more excuses for missing those meetings in the evening. Junior high; high school; college—none of them stayed little forever. And then on to good jobs in insurance companies and the post office, even doctors or lawyers. Yes, that’s what would happen to …show more content…

She gave Mattie a huge role in the story and created a relationship with Etta to served as a guide for friendship between women living in Brewster. Gloria created a educated figure such as Kiswana and her relationship with Cora to help make Brewster a better place and bring hope for a better future for everyone. Gloria especially introduces a Theresa and Lorraine relationship to show that beyond the bond between women lays the truth of what women had to go through while living in a society with

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