Within the novel Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver, the reader is introduced to a young woman named Marietta, Missy, and she later renames herself Taylor. Taylor's story is very much like a coming-of-age story and contains many new lessons along the paths of life. She learns how to deal with unexpected problems, phobias, and the many forms of love, and through these internal actions she has learned to see a new perspective on life.>>>>Taylor started out as a young farm girl in Pittman Country, and was traumatized from Newt Hardbine's father's accident due to a full tire. Taylor said "a tractor tire blew out and threw Newt Hardbine's father over the Standard Oil sign. (1) Kingsolver" It was more than enough to harden an internal fear of tires. Taylor had to express his unnatural fear of tires to his mother, because before he could drive out of town in his new '55 Volkswagen. Her mother needed to be reassured that her little girl could change a tire. Mom asked Taylor what she would do if she had two ballerinas, and Taylor thought of an answer, saying, "Easy, I put ...