Flower Crazy

"Flower Crazy" is a very "descriptive" story about a young woman who is helping to earn income for her family by prostituting herself. The story itself wasn't really a story, it is more of a description of the life that this young woman is leading and about the area she lives in. Her father is crazy and spends all of his time giving out flowers that he purchases with his own mothers money (thus the nickname "Flower Crazy") so he does not contribute anything to the family. Her mother is a peddler of produce on the street so most likely does not bring home a lot of money either. Prostitution is, in this particular circumstance, probably the only way this young woman can afford to feed herself and her family. She very obviously lives in a severe sort of poverty as the author takes time to describe all of the hungry children which surround her and the lack of food in her own home. I also think that this young girl must be pregnant because the first thing she does upon waking up in the morning is get violently ill. All in all this story is a very depressing but entirely believable tail of what an impoverished family must go through to survive.