Bean Trees
... This is the way Taylor Greer, the main character in The Bean Trees, written by Barbara Kingsolver, thinks and goes about her everyday life in the beginning of the novel. ... The Bean Trees is set in a womans world that is imperfect, but also baffling and unpredictable (Ryan 45). ... From the very beginning there was a feminist question at the heart of The Bean Trees: "How can a young girl, who is good and kind, and yet who resists the idea that her purpose in life is to give birth and raise children, create her own identity?