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Role of Women in Bean Trees

Women of today’s world are starting to become so independent that one-day they will out number men in the working environment. In her novel, The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver develops the theme that women in community have the power of the world and the ability to survive on their own. She portrays this through character. Taylor was raised by her mother alone in a community where men were primarily in power. Taylor then left her home without any male influence and decided to travel to where fate brought her. When she reached he final destination which was Tucson, Arizona she met a lady named Lou Ann who had recently separated from her husband and was living on her own with a new baby boy named Dwayne Ray. Upon arrival she also met a lady by the name of Mattie who by herself ran a safe-house for immigrants and ran a business of her own called “Jesus Is Lord Used Tires”. She also met many other women throughout the story that portrayed this independence. All of these people are women who have survived on their own, their stories will justify a woman’s ability to survive without male influence. However the human race would not be able to survive without male influence due to their pa

Taylor Greer was raised by her mother without any male influence other than the neighbors in Pittman County. Taylor’s name at birth was Marietta Greer, which eventually changed to Missy due to an incident one day that she demanded her mother call her Miss Marietta, shortened to Missy at an older age. “…when I was three supposedly I stamped my foot and told my mother not to call me Marietta but Miss Marietta…”

Her mother made sure that she was going to be responsible for everything that could go wrong with that car, while in her mind she knew that this was the icing on the cake for Missy’s journey out of Pittman.

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