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This novel is set in Harlem in New York City. The Grimes migrate
to the North in search of new opportunities. Elizabeth bids
goodbye to her aunt in Maryland and leaves with Richard. She
arrives in New York with great expectations but she is sorely
disappointed. "Here, in this great city where no one cared, where
people might live in the same building for years and never speak to
one another, she found herself, when Richard took her in his arms,
on the edge of a steep place and down she rushed, on the descent
uncaring, into the dreadful sea." New York is a big and bustling
city but it is heartless. The only way Elizabeth and Richard make
their existence meaningful is by visiting places of interest in the
city on weekends. They go to the Central Park or the Museum of
Natural history to take their mind off from the daily drudgery.

John Grimes does the same when he has to escape out of his dingy
quarters at Harlem. He climbs a hill nearby to view New......

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