Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers, gives the reader an amazingly detailed, powerful, and poignant story of a Jewish family living in 1920s New York, and their struggle to survive in the crowded, disease filled building. The novel, written in Sarah’s perspective, follows her journey as she turns her back on her Jewish culture, and it’s tradition of holding women inferior to men, to pursue her dreams, no matter the cost, and live at a higher standard than the one she experienced growing up. Her fictional journey to success is a paragon to the one all immigrants make – becoming the best they could be in a land of limitless opportunity. Sarah’s story is really powerful in showing the sacrifices she makes to become a teacher, and how she never lost sight of that final goal.