Everyone reacts differently to their environment. In the passage from Ann Petry's The Street, Lutie Johnson's shows how she struggled and adapted with being in an urban environment. Petry uses many literary devices to show Johnson's determination. Through the usage of heavy imagery and personification, Petry shows that Johnson is capable of adapting. One of the most prevalent literary device used was personification. In the passage, the main antagonist isn't a person like in most stories, but rather a force of nature, the wind. The wind is given many human like characteristics to describe the effect of the wind in the city. The wind didn't simply blow into the doorways, or blow across the street. Rather, it took the time to rush into doorways
