Discussion Guide for Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska
1. What does the father in this "memoir" see as the obligations of a father? mother?
daughters? What are his values based on?
2. What do Bessie, Fania, Mashah, and Sara believe are their obligations as daughters?
Why might Sara be different?
3. What is the mother's role in the interplay between father and daughters? Does it
change over time?
4. What are the mother's and father's attitudes toward Americans (as family members)
and their daughters as Americans?
5. How does college change Sara?
6. Given the way that her family has treated her, why does Sara go back?
7. If the parents believe that their daughter's role in life is to be a wife/mother, why are
they so proud that she is a "teacherin?"
