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Women’s Issues in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith, in the book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, she tries to put out the crucial

role of sex in the lives of women as well as how sex demoralizes women at the expense of

social requirements to adhere to men's desires as they deny their own. In their Williamsburg

neighborhood (Smith), sexual relationships were much undermined by shame. It is the same

reason that girls would be violated, and it remained a secret. In the book, Smith outlines how

the intimate lives of girls and women demonstrate the prejudice against women that exist.

She illustrates the way sexuality and gender-mixed up the miserable lives of women during

that period. She also reveals how discrimination against women, hypocrisy, and shame that

covered attitude towards sex by Americans.

Pregnancy was a significant concern among women in Francies's world (Smith). The

families were poor, and the possibility of adding a member of the family that could barely

feed itself was received with a lot of negativity, especially if the daughter was not married.

Smith conceals that women had to accept that they were pregnant and live with it because,

during the time, there was no safe way of birth control. Therefore they had to take it whether

they liked it or not.

Joanna’s baby illegitimacy, when the local teenager Joanna gave birth out of

marriage, women mimicked and also hurled rocks to her because she moved in the streets

freely with her kid. By use of throwing stones, Smith wanted to show how these women

wanted to be seen as honorable and paint Joanna as undesirable and shameful to the

community (Smith). In this case, no one condemned the boy who impregnated her, but the

full blame was directed to Joanna.

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Demonizing personal satisfaction of women, Smith notes that Aunt sissy was very

defiant of perceived social norms and was also unapologetically sexual (Smith). She was only

perceived as naive and lacked education, but the fact was she was not ready to hide behind

the social norms; therefore, she chose her satisfaction over feeling ashamed of her feelings

and body.

Prejudice against women. Sissy is described as having a 30-year-old body while she

was just ten. She would attract all the boys, and she was also after them. Her reputation is

scandalous, but unfortunately, no one felt the need to condemn the boys whose sexuality they

took advantage of. When sissy was in a courtship with 25 years old Jim, she was only 14

years old, but Rommely was very outraged when he heard of it. He only cared about the

family's reputation other than the psychological wellbeing of sissy, and she could have been

affected.

Young girls are left to learn about sex on their own. Sissy had sex with older men, but

it was not taken as sexual abuse. However, parents in this neighborhood always live in fear of

sex predators targeting their daughters (Smith). Parents would never speak about regular sex;

they would timidly touch on criminal sex. This unfortunate attitude about sex leads to

unhealthy sexuality in girls and therefore leading to sex being associated with violence other

than pleasure and intimacy.

In the book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, scenes were set to flow historically,

everything to unfold through time, place, events, references, and people. It covers seven

crucial years period from 1912-1919 hence completing the development to adulthood

(Smith). However, much history is chronological. Smith's novel starts from the middle back

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Customer Name Class No 03/03/2020 Paper No 1 Women’s Issues in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith, in the book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, she tries to put out the crucial role of sex in the lives of women as well as how sex demoralizes women at the expense of social requirements to adhere to men's desires as they deny their own. In their Williamsburg neighborhood (Smith), sexual relationships were much undermined by shame. It is the same reason that girls would be violated, and it remained a secret. In the book, Smith outlines how the intimate lives of girls and women demonstrate the prejudice against women that exist. She illustrates the way sexuality and gender-mixed up the miserable lives of women during that period. She also reveals how discrimination against women, hypocrisy, and shame that covered attitude towards sex by Americans. Pregnancy was a significant concern among women in Francies's world (Smith). The families were poor, and the possibility of adding a member of the family that could barely feed itself was received with a lot of negativity, especially if the daughter was not married. Smith conceals that women had to accept that they were pregnant and live with it because, during the time, there was no safe way of birth control. Therefore they had to take it whether they liked it or not. Joanna’s baby illegitimacy, when the local teenager Joanna gave birth out of marriage, women mimicked and also hurled rocks to her because she moved in the streets freel ...
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