The “Bean Eaters” by Gwendolyn Brooks is a very deep poem. The first impression it gives is that it is about a couple. Maybe a couple that has lived their whole life together in poverty but in happiness. This couple has lived its life together but without any material well-being. “Dinner is a casual affair” because dinner it something they have to eat to survive. And though this dinner is very poor, nevertheless the life of this pair has all the components that should be remembered: “beads and receipts and dolls and cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes”. It is full of the things that were important to the couple, and were dear to it.

     It is a poem that tells how little our bodies need to life and at the same time how deep out soul can be. It says: “You do not need to be rich and eat the most exquisite food to reveal your inner world and what you actually feel”. “Beans” is a cheap meal but nevertheless is a meal that can connect the life of two people for ever and can make them happy. Even if you eat more than “beans” it does not guarantee you happiness. But sometimes it is “beans” that make you remember what is the most important thing in life – to live and to be happy with what you have got.

“Beans” are needed to continue the life of poor people, but bring so poor they are still able to be happy and get alder together. “Two who are Mostly Good” – these two people have not done anything bad in their life but the search of the product of survival. They survived, they are not rich, but they are happy. People who can depend on “beans” are really mostly good, because people that depend on “caviar” are perverted and sick.  The “bean eaters” are happy with little things and do not need anything extraordinary to be really honestly happy. They “put on their clothes” and “put things away” as mature people. This is the natural course of things. The “bean eaters” have a rented room but they still manage to be “twinkling” like stars. They are pure in their feelings and are able to leave the things that bother them as they are strong as a couple.

This poem is simple. It is a simple poem about poor people. They are the “bean eaters” but they are full of happy memories. Poorness has not stopped them from being happy and having the most sweet life and most sincere relationship in the world. These people are poor but they are not giving up, they continue to life and in spite of their “beans” they still eat their memories. Their life if remembering what they have been through, what they have experienced and what they have survived.  They have faced different things: the good and the bad (the tasty and the disgusting). Nevertheless, their memories are the tastiest thing in the whole wide world. Yes, they eat “beans” but they are happy as the most wealthy people on Earth.