Zach Mandigo’s Reviews > Brooklyn > Status Update

In Brooklyn, Eilis seems to help hold her family together. On page 3 Toibin writes, “As her mother washed the dishes, Eilis dried them,” she helps without being told. She has supported her family in quiet ways like this a couple times already. I think that the author does this to show her caring nature early on in the book and that when she leaves for America later that this will really hurt their family.