no let-up till she gets it" (Yezierska, 20). While the motivation to better oneself is looked at in a positive light, the obsession fore more may consume you in the process, sadly leaving you with nothing.In Sara, her father finds his most persistent and unyielding opponent, and increasingly so as she becomes older. She, the youngest, has breathed heavily on the New World's aura, and eventually decides it more important to follow it rather than her father's preaching. Already, at the age of ten, Sara feels the independent sensation that money-a symbol of freedom-brings to her. When she bounds home after profiting on a mess of herring she sold, she rejoices: "it began dancing before my eyes, the twenty-five herring that earned me my twenty-five cents. It lifted me in the air, my happiness. I couldn't help it. It began dancing under my feet" (Yezierska, 22-3). This sensation, a taste of the bettering American spirit, fires Sara to continue her defense against her father, and dream about what she wants. At age 17, Sara finally leaves, breaking free of her father's tyrannical preaching and unrealistic expectations, Sara begins to live out her dream on her own. Sara's vehicle is now in motion while her father's is stuck in the get-rich-quick rut on the side of the road to the American Dream. Sara realizes the true way to achieve her dreams-the New World dream: to work hard for what you want. Reb tries to let the dream come to him. For example, waiting for the expected dividends he has invested in the husbands he has chose for his daughters. By doing this, he simultaneously shuts his family off to the dream as well-the true dream, as Sara has found it-"his strong hand push[ing] back and beat[ing] down all contradictions" (Yezierska, 75). An equal tenacity, combined with her New World dreams in motion, Sara is able to resist this strong hand from the now outdated roots of tradition.Unfortunately, the Kochinsky's outcome was not ...
