Notes 1/10/17

New York Day Women:

Contrasts the choices made by women in Haiti vs United States (night women)
Bold-face print is her mothers voice inside daughter's head

Characters:
-Woman (Suzette) 20s
-Her mother 50s

Plot:
-woman follows her mother around the city all day
-mother stuck in the past of Haiti
-mother has a job watching children while parents do other things (nanny)
-Daughter finds out what her mother does all day
-Finds out that mother had to work all day to provide for daughter
-Realizes that she needs to be more "pro-mom"

Comparison:
-Mother and daughter do not have a great relationship (clash w/ generation gap and where they were brought up)
-Mother wants daughter to be something else, nags her about job, how nice she is, etc.
-Agrees that her mother is right, but thinks her mother never did anything for her