ASSIGNMENT

Assignment

The Lost "Beautifulness”, Happy Birthday, and Public Transportation

The Lost "Beautifulness”

I really enjoyed Anzio Yezierska's story. “The Lost Beautifulness” was a poignant story about Hannah Hayyeh's quest to add a little beauty and happiness to her hard life. I had a great deal of sympathy for her. Painting her kitchen gave her so much happiness and it was great how her neighbors enjoyed this joy with her. I love the language they used to describe how impressed they were with her attempt. Their exclamations of wonder and joy were priceless. I also loved her relationship with Mrs. Preston and how much pride she took in doing her laundry. Mrs. Preston's opinion meant so much to her and for her to call Hannah a laundry artist is just precious. I love Mrs. Preston's definition of an artist and how she tells Hannah that she expresses her love of the beautiful as a laundress the way a painter expresses it with paint. They relationship is so rich because of Mrs. Preston's appreciation of her passion for beauty (Drunker, 2007). I felt sympathy for Mrs. Preston when she tried to help Hannah in the only way she knew how and Hannah could not understand or accept her gesture. I disliked her husband because he could not appreciate or understand Hannah's quest for beauty. Beautifulness describes the efforts of sympathetic portrait of this woman a mother who idealizes herson landlord to raise the rent on her apartment and result property and interested only in money. I especially dislike the landlord and her greed and for the pain that he caused her gentle soul. I can't believe that this story was written in 1920. It is timeless and has universal appeal. The writer appeals to emotions that I think we all have felt at one time or ...