The difference in attitudes towards americanization and gender relation within the Santella family, as revealed in Gamio’s report, can be noticed by the decision of all the brothers to acquire their hearts desires/dreams before getting married, and the decisions of the sisters to marry at young ages. The mother, who was unhappy, believed that americanization influenced the decision of the daughters to marry when they were too young to: the youngest daughter, a teenager, quit school because of marriage.
