Eugenia Collier Analysis

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Eugenia Collier creates the image of her childhood being hard and depressed. In paragraph 3 she describes her childhood as “...futile waiting was the sorrowful background music of our impoverished little community when I was young.” This shows that most of her childhood was her waiting and yearning for money, just so she could survive. She did not have access to many basic necessities like food, water, clothes, etc. Americans would work as hard as they could, but still could not obtain the basic necessities of life. “Offering one's swear in return for some meager share of bread.” No Matter how hard they worked, it was always not enough to survive.

Collier describes Miss Lottie’s house in paragraph 18 as “...the most ramshackle of all the
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