Part 1 of Essay
One of the most difficult challenges of life in society is finding the strength to break out of the mold which has been set by the values of previous generations. From infancy onward, everyone's heart and mind are struck by a deluge of ideas which declare what is "right" and "proper" and "appropriate"; most defer to these ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... grandmother and later her first husband restrain her by trying to crowd her mind with the empty trinkets which they themselves have learned to value. Her second husband is similarly stifling; though his strength and power is at first appealing, he too is unable to comprehend that life is in the living and the being, and not in the having and the controlling. Janie not knowing what marriage really meant, married because she thought he could take care of her. Marriage is defined as an insitution uniting a man a ....