Sparknotes The Women Of Brewster Place

In The Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor portrays seven dauntless black women struggling to survive life's grim realities. Gloria Naylor creates a realistic display of the women through their relationships and struggles that all human beings face in order to find their true happiness. The wall separating Brewster Place from the main streets of the city serves a variety of important purposes. After being built, the wall comes to show the lack of concern in which Brewster Place is treated by the men responsible for its creation. Due to the wall Brewster Place is isolated, causing it to be economically and culturally divided from the rest of the city. The wall has forced Brewster Place to defend itself. For the residents of Brewster Place,
The author uses the word bastard to signify it’s a bad place and a miserable place. The housing development was created by two immoral people that invent Brewster place for their bad intentions. The alderman and director wanting to remove the police chief of the sixth district due to the fact that he was too honest and the alderman wanting to build a shopping center on his brothers land agreed to construct a four double housing units on some worthless land in a badly crowded area in order to control expected protests. The boulevard started to become a major business district and to cut off traffic Brewster place was walled off. Brewster place is left to fend for itself. “Cut off from the central activities of the city, the street developed a personality of its own. The people had their own language and music and codes (Naylor 2). This quote helps to show how the wall isolates the people of Brewster place from the rest of the city and is left to struggle with no resources other than its