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“I felt acutely the meagerness of it, the insufficiency. We wanted more. We wanted what we had come here for.”
Alma already feels that her future is limited, as her husband is forced to take a job that is beneath him, one that denies him a break to eat or drink during the workday, and it is a struggle to get her daughter properly enrolled in school.
“Maybe I’ll make something. Something to remind me of home. But I didn’t have any of the ingredients I needed, so I just stood there, staring at the flat, cast iron pan, feeling homesickness charging at me like a roaring wave.”
Food connects the immigrant characters to home and identity. The recipes of home would offer Alma comfort and would help root her in her new setting as well, so her inability to cook as she would like highlights The Cultural Isolation of Immigrants in America.
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