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This 6 page paper compares the experiences of Al Smith and Joan Didion with regard to their appreciation of and understanding of New York City. It argues that Smith knows and accepts the city while Didion remains an uncomfortable outsider. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and organic; it is beautiful and ugly; it melds cultures from all over the world and sits back to watch as those cultures clash. The greatest city of them all
is New York. This paper discusses New York as seen by two writers with very different views of it: Al Smith and Joan Didion. Discussion Our first writer is Al
Smith, whose article about New York is a litany of praise for a place that seems gentle and kind, almost magical in some respects. The reason for this is simple:
hes remembering the New York he visited as a child. Each episode he recalls is charming and brings back a good memory for him. These are not "mean streets" of
crime and violence; for him, the entire city is a playground. He begins with a blizzard that is so severe its impossible to get out of the house. But
instead of weaving a tale of people freezing to death, or being trapped without heat, he instead is worried about a "Scotch terrier dog with four puppies" who is living
in the back of a candy store," and that no one can reach.1 He doesnt mention the dog again, so a reader will assume there was no problem; if she
and the puppies had died, it would have made a huge impact on Smith and he would have written about it at length. Absent any such reference, it becomes merely
a funny anecdote about how bad the storm was. Smith also notes that the blizzard was a novelty because the East River froze, something that rarely happens, then or now.
With the river frozen, it became a game to walk across it to Brooklyn and back; one man, he says, lowered his horse onto the ice and rode across.2 And
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