Sara Smolinsky A Real Person

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A real person
Sara Smolinsky is the primary character who struggles to be different, and have a different life from what is the expectation around her. She often says that she wants to be a person. A real person is symbolism in this case for being in a state of the things she believes in as an individual. Sarah believes that a real person is happy, independent, and self-sufficient. According to the environment around her, for one to be successful they needed money and financial independence. The urge for financial independence pushes her to sell herring on the streets despite her young age. Gaining financial independence for her is a way of learning and self-development. She says, “I realized that
She hates how her sisters have been married off. She feels she has to escape away from that environment so as not to end up the same. The crowded environment for her is hindering her from being a real person. That is why she dreams of a better life than the one she is brought up in “And worked, and studied, on and on, till she became a teacher in the schools. A schoolteacher- I! I saw myself sitting back like a lady at my desk, the children, their eyes on me, watching and waiting for me to call out the different ones to the board, to spell a word, or answer a question”. She wanted a higher status than the one she saw all around her, and dreamt of a bigger future hence investing on herself and her
As a Jew from a poverty-stricken background, she is expected to get married or to remain single and work so that she can support her parents financially. Sara however chooses to first go to school and get educated, which is disappointing to many and even her parents because it comes across as if she does not want to support them. Her desire for being independent and self-sufficient is frowned upon in a society that finds it unbecoming for a Jewish girl like her. Respectable unmarried women in the Jewish contemporary society did not leave their homes to go and rent a house to stay alone. She again breaks free of societal expectations of her and tries to find a house to rent, even though it proves