Husband

Feminist Musings on the NO. 3 Train written by Lourdes-marie Prophete. The writer was born in Haiti and brought to America as a young child by her mother and father. Soon after coming to America and settling in New York her father left her to go back to Haiti. Soon after this happened her aunt from Haiti came to live with her and her mother. Growing up in New York City was very different than if she would have grown up in Haiti. In Haiti people are close to everyone while in New York City everyone is out for themselves. Throughout the writers life she experiences her mother and aunt longing to have husbands. Expressing that if they had husbands their lives would be much easier that they wouldn’t have to worry so much and take care of so much. The writer expresses that she fears she will never marry and end up like her aunt. She explains that her mother is miserable that she doesn’t have a husband she has turned to prayer, all she wants for her mother is to see her mother happy.

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