"New York Day Women" Notes



New York Day Women and Night Women similarities:
Comparison of job/lives
opportunity (better life)
Sacrifice

Characters:

  • 2 voices- Regular text (Suzette) and bold text (mother's voice in Suzettes memory: negative, sassy, attitude, though, hard, judgmental/critical of Suzette)
  •  Suzette (Daughter) age 20s: tails her mother  
  •  Mother age 59: Nanny (has shame)
  •   Father: Cab driver 
  •   Child in the park: Has a good relationship with the lady (Mother)
  • Child's mother: Leaves her kid with the lady while she runs in the park

Relationship between mother and daughter (New York Day Day Women) is strained/miscommunication, maybe because she is a mother of other children but lacks that relationship with her own daughter

Night Women there is a lot of shame don't to tell her child what she does for living


Setting:
NYC, lived in Brooklyn


Outline:
The mother is happy but very sheltered and cautious
She is afraid to take the subway and go outside her neighborhood
The daughter trails the mother
She watches her buy things from street vendors, and she ultimately makes her way to a park where she watches a little boy while the mother goes running
The child and the lady are very comfortable with no another, maybe showing that she babysits the child
The daughter and mother are civilized in America
they have normal American worries and struggles
there are little referrals to life back in Haiti and their culture is still with them
Childhood: Mom never went to Parent meetings at school, daughter thinks that the mother is not proud of her
Daughter- in the beginning the daughter is angry but at the end, she sees her mother in a new way (forgiveness)

The train seat is always going back to her mother, and why she ends up giving the seat at the end is because she forgives her mother




Thoughts:

More poetic than the previous stories
This feels like more of a success story from the others
This family was fortunate enough to escape from Haiti
Life is no where near perfect but it is a lot better than what it could be


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