"They've been traveling through steerage for the last two weeks, Mother. Can you imagine what manner of vermin they must be carrying with them? That feather bed should be burned before it unloads its cargo of fleas and lice into our flat. There might even be mice in that filthy thing. And they all need baths." I heard the murmur of Elsa's voice, then Trudy again. "But, Mother, they're dirty. They smell like goats. I don't think they've ever seen a bar of soap" (Auch, 47). This quote shows the way that Trudy sees Rose and her family as and thinks of them, when she hasn't even given them a chance to settle in. They haven't had a chance to take a bath because using clean, fresh water to bath had cost a lot of money on the ship and they couldn't afford it. She wasn't very welcoming to them also and seemed to have a lot of things to say about them. .
In addition, when Rose was searching for a job a man that owned a shop told her, "There's a boatload of you greenhorns landing every day, and you think you're going to make a fortune in America. Well, don't hold your breath girlie, because it's not going to happen" (Auch, 68). This shows that the owner did not welcome immigrants coming into America and thought that believing they would achieve something was nonsense. He had crushed Rose's dream of becoming a part of America and believed she was an inexperienced immigrant from the use of the word "greenhorn." It was meant to be shameful and had an effect on Rose. If she was not going to be accepted by him or Uncle Patrick's family, there wasn't a way she would be able to win the fondness of anyone. She wouldn't feel at home in America until she was accepted for who she was and met a person who didn't look at her as if she was a roach and alien.
When coming to America, Rose had hoped that she would be able to become prosperous and richer, but because of gender she wasn't able to.
