g to be a diamond dealer. Then he takes all his family's money and overpays for a grocery store that almost has no merchandize in it. He is too arrogant to bring his wife to evaluate the store and too foolish to do it himself. He prefers to waste the money to helping his wife and daughters. His vises represent the vises of the Old World, such as poverty lack of education, outdated traditions, lack of human rights for women, and hopelessness of their situation. The hypocrisy of his preaches show that many Old World views and laws are false and thus should be rebelled against and left behind. Unfortunately, women of the Old World did not have the option to rebel. The Jewish society of Eastern Europe would not tolerate it. So the women had no choice but to be servants of their men and their situation was hopeless. Sarah's mother represents the hopelessness of the Old World. She was born to a relatively wealthy family, had a happy childhood and grew up to be a beautiful, spirited and happy young woman. But the happiness was not meant to last because her father decided to marry her off at the age of fourteen. She naturally had no voice in the decision and was married to a man who her father perceived to be most educrk book. If g endlessly or worrying about liness was the most severe throughout the novel. She struggled in her society to find somebody that she could consult with. She tried and would do an

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