Edwidge Danticat’s short story “Women Like Us,” |English Discussion
In Edwidge Danticat’s short story “Women Like Us,” Danticat makes particular use of the literary elements of point of view/perspective and symbolism to illustrate the significance of a moment between mother and daughter, in which the daughter shows her writing to her mother for the first time and divulges her dream of being a professional writer. How does Danticat use point of view/perspective and symbolism in this short story, and to what effect? What do you think Danticat is trying to convey through the choices of perspective she makes, and the symbols she uses in “Women Like Us”?
