Under the Feet of Jesus

Question about Estrella

What quote in the novel best shows that estrella is growing?

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“Estrella had figured it out: the nurse owed them as much as they owed her." 148

Panicked in the clinic, Estrella has an important revelation: society owes her for her hard labor. She works tirelessly in the fields to make others' middle-class existence possible; it is her sweat that allows the nurse to buy cheap produce at the grocery store.