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Anzia Yezierska’s novel, The Bread Givers, is an extensive observation of relationships in an immigrant family of early twentieth century America. Many social and political implications are made throughout the novel about the relationship between “Americansâ ....

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.... (45). In Sara, her father finds his most persistent and unyielding opponent, and increasingly so as she gets older. She, the youngest, has breathed heavily of the New World’s aura, and eventually decides it’s more important than her father’s preaching. Sara has also inherited a large part of her father’s tenacity, and uses it in her own particular way to achieve her goals. This equality of willpower, this sameness of temperament between Sara and her father is necessary for their ability to resist each other’s choices. No one else in the family has the necessary rigidity to stand up against the father in a decisive way. In th ....