The shawl I became like the woman with the lettuce

"I became like the woman with the lettuce." This is how Rosa ends her last letter of the book to Magda. I believe she sees the information she has as the lettuce that should be information of historical events that everyone should want a piece of. She can no longer offer this information because after trying for so long and not having anyone listen to what she had to say during her time at the store she has now stopped trying to be the informer and now sits on the tramcar of life without noticing the goings on around her. She refuses to see another time, another chapter in her life. I feel as though this could have changed if people would have listened to her stories and let her tell them where their antiques came from and the stories they tell from the lives they had led before going to their new home. As we talked about in class no one wanted to hear because they were busy people looking for pretty things for decorating. Rosa’s only connection to the home she once lived in with her family and the paintings and vases they had was by keeping this store and after the destruction of her store her only connection to those things were to talk to Rosa so she did not lose that part of her childhood in Poland. People are so self-centered and if they just listened I believe Rosa would of still been living in New York with Stella as a successful business owner and not another one of Dr. Tree’s statistics because she would have moved on from her past successfully. She would have continued to make something of her life and could have told stories of her daughter that were true such as her survival for so long to honor her child and not make herself look like a crazy fool who can’t let go of the past.