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“Mom frowned at me. 'You'd be destroying what makes it special,' she said, 'It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty'.”
When Jeannette devises a plan to right the Joshua tree which has grown sideways in the direction of the constant wind that passes over it, Rosemary does not like the idea. Rose Mary claims that the tree is beautiful not because it grows straight like the other trees, but rather because its struggle defines it and makes it unique. I believe that during this moment between Jeanette and Rosemary, Rosemary is explaining to Jeanette that it’s not beautiful for how it looks but because of its story, hoping that Rosemary will convey a message of symbolic meaning that the Wells family isn't special for how they look but because of their journey and how hard they work to be like the average family. Rose Mary is typically unwilling to tamper with nature and she is particularly drawn to the unique form of the Joshua Tree. Through the figure of the tree, a young Jeannette learns an important lesson about non-conformity. The author in this passage and this scene reveals a beautiful moment between Mrs. Wells and Jeanette because Rosemary is explaining that beauty is from within not from what the eye sees, and the writer reveals that symbolism for the Wells family.
“After dinner, the whole family stretched out on the benches and the floor of the depot and read, with the dictionary in the middle of the room so we kids could look up words we don't know...Occasionally, on those nights when we were all reading together, a train would thunder by, shaking the house and rattling the windows. The noise was thunderous, but after we'd been there a while, we didn't even hear it.”
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