I really enjoyed the reading given by Gloria Naylor on her book, The Women of Brewster Place. Naylor stated in her reading that the wall that blocked off Brewster Place from the rest of the world and symbolized the racism and sexism that the women in the story had to deal with. Lucielia Louise Turner, or Ceil, was one of the characters featured prominently in her reading. Ceil was important to the story of The …showed first 75 words of 945 total…

…showed last 75 words of 945 total…the story had to deal with these issues in her own way. The women of Brewster Place pulled together and supported each other in rough times. Without Mattie, Ceil probably would not have lived through the death of her daughter. Each woman that lived in the building called Brewster Place knew what it meant to deal with sexism and racism and through the support of the other women they triumphed through hard times. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**