Comparison between New York Day Women and Night Women

        Women are trying to fight for more freedom and equality in modern history, but how they make effort, women are defined as a group of vulnerable people in both social bias and biological description.  The reason is that in biological and psychological explanation, the female pay more effort on having a child; in the social script, the female should become mother eventually, and they have to raise their children.  Therefore, in both subconsciousness and lead of gender role (or culture), the ladies in New York Day Women and Night Women are both mothers who love their children so much.   

       Besides the love, they are both ashamed of their jobs and even ashamed of themselves.  In Night Women, the mother chooses to be a prostitute, so that she can earn more money to provide her son having a good education.  The job decides once she becomes the night women, she is stuck in this job and will never go back to day women.  In a traditional mind, the job is really filthy and inappropriate so the mother cannot tell the truth to her son about her job.  She desires to be a day woman who she will never become from the time she decides to be a night woman.  

        The mother in New York Day Women holds the same shame about her job and her identity, I think.  In her traditional mind, she should be a mother taking care her child, but the truth is that she has to take care of other children, spending more time with other children instead of her daughter.  She is a nanny.  In addition, because of that, I feel she is a little bit guilty to her own child, and that is why she chooses to hide her job from her child.  She also ashamed of her identity.  When she lives in New York, she never goes out of Brooklyn, and she is living with a heavy Haitian tradition.  Back at that time, I know Brooklyn is a massive place that so many black people live there.  I watched some movies and read some books that mentioned people in 19 century would not go to Brooklyn because of chaos and filth.  Even though the black could have the opportunity to find a good job and a good place to live in the eastern coast of USA, the racism decides that the black people still cannot be treated equally.   Therefore, as a Haitian, the mother cannot get into society, and she is ashamed that she lives in Brooklyn with Haitian, black identity.  However, the mother is as proud to her child as the mother in Night Women.   

       These two mothers also have differences.  The mother in New York Day Woman is a little more fortunate than the mother in Night Women.  The mother still has a husband supporting the family, and she does not have to be a night woman.  However, the mother in Night Women has to raise her child by her own, facing the danger all the time because she is in Haiti.  For example, the driver will be responsible for the car accident in the USA, but in Haiti, "the owner of the car gets out and kicks you for getting blood on his bumper."  Haiti is lack of justice law, and it makes the mother in Night Women even more tragic.   

        After reading these two stories, I am confused about the gender role.  I think the gender role in these two stories suggest the children are the future of the mothers.  Children come first.  Therefore, as mothers, they have to sacrifice themselves, and they are so easy to be ashamed.  Women are tough and independent because of their children.