Tevya and His First Daughter

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Tevya and His First Daughter is about a poor dairyman, Tevya, and his

daughter Tzeitl, who is in an arranged marriage that she does not want to be in.

Tevya and his wife, Golde, both approve of Tzeitl being married to Lazar Wolf,

the town's butcher. They forget to ask Tzeitl about her feelings about the

marriage, and when Tzeitl finds out she starts to cry. Tzeitl's sister, Hodel, is the

first on to make Tevya realize his mistake about the forced marriage, and he goes

to Tzeitl to fix it. The parents, the daughters, and the suitors all have different

Tzeitl's parents meant well in their choosing of Lazar Wolf. They believed

since he had many shops and had a good income that he c

on the other hand, did not believe in arranged marriages. While he himself was

and for motivation for marrying Tzeitl.

Tevya to make for his daughter. While Tzeitl's parents only meant well for her,

became distraught and started crying. When Tevya asked why Tzeitl was crying,

Afterwards, Tzeitl told her father about the man she was planning to marry;

not as well off as Lazar, Mottel had been planning and saving up, so as to have

Arranged marriages can be good or bad; in this case is was a bad choice for

reasons and differences of the two suitors varied greatly as for arranged marriages

was very pretty. Lazar Wolf was quite older than Tzeitl, so the only way he

Approximate Word count = 510
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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