"Each of these writers contemplates the "welling together" of "impressions" and experiences in a "flow of time" that sweeps humans along toward apparently predestined ends. Caught up in this flow, the characters of these three contemporary authors find only tentative meaning and design in an indefinite, incomplete past" (Rainwaterhand, 69). Rainwaterhand points out that the characters of these three authors are haunted by their own past, just as their creators must be hunted not only by their own personal past, but also by that of their people and the whole world. And when you are born in New York, living with your Jewish family in Bronx and growing up in the 1930s in a country that was going through a Great Depression, amid anti-Semitic feelings from your neighbors and peers and on the way towards one of the most...

Cynthia Ozick did not want to escape her destiny as a female Jewish writer and she wrote her stories and essays under the deep influence of everything that was going on in the world since she first realized it and more.
Works Cited

Bloom, Harold. Cynthia Ozick. Chelsea House, 1986

Lowin, Joseph. Cynthia Ozick. Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved: Nov 11, 2008. Available at http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Ozick.html

The Many Faces of Cynthia Ozick. 1997. Retrieved: Nov. 11, 2008. Available at http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/factfict/ozick.htm