THE BEAN TREES ESSAY Taylor Greer has many trials and tribulations that she must confront and overcome. This essay is going to discuss Taylor’s trials and tribulations within the novel. Taylor (born Marietta) grew up in Pittman, Kentucky, a small rural town where families "had kids just about as fast as they could fall down the well and drown" and a boy with a job as a gas-meter man was considered a "high-class catch." …showed first 75 words of 764 total…

…showed last 75 words of 764 total…re-evaluate her relationships with others, especially her own mother. In a way, Taylor is experiencing a moment we all go through, when our parents turn suddenly into human beings. The old women who volunteer as babysitters, the Chinese grocer down the street, and particularly the Guatemalan refugees who have survived tragedies she can not imagine, all reveal a special value to Taylor as she learns to depend on others and have them depend on her.