r parents' failing grocery store in Elizabeth, NJ after a dispute with her father (Yezierska 135). She took the train back to New York and her sisters. She went first to see her sister, Bessie, at the fish market. The next day she went to her sister Mashah. Both sisters were living poor lives full of nothing but hard work and little money. Having realized that neither sister had room for her, or even the means to help her, she struck out on her own (Yezierska 151). Sara could see that the path they had taken was not right for her. Marriage had changed nothing for them, and Sara knew that she would have to find freedom on her own. She had been put out on the street by her brother in law, who she looked down on, and felt the need to prove her greatness to him and everyone else, but how? "And then it flashed to me. The story from the Sunday paper. A girl-slaving away in th!
             e shop. Her hair was already turning gray, and nothing had ever happened to her. Then suddenly she began to study in the night school, then college. And worked and studied, on and on, till
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