Analysis Of Living With Strangers By Siri Hustvedt

Each different country has its own norms and way that the community works. We see the deferens everywhere we go from a big city to a little farmer town we will be able to see a deferens. In this story is being shown by comparing Rural Minnesota and the city that never sleeps New York. How far apart are these two cities that are located in the same country really. It is also to show how far to people can be from one another even when they live so close to you.

The essay was published in The New York Times 2002 and was written by Siri Hustvedt. The essay doesn’t have a chronological style but what is does is it switches between various events of the nar-rators life while living in New York and in the beginning in Minnesota. Living With Strangers …show more content…
She specially talks about the “pretend it isn’t happening.” Phrase. This means that no mater what happens around you, you shall not react to it since it is none of your concern. If you do meddle with others business you are either new in the city, a tourist or intentionally breaking the unwritten rule it can be seen in the text when she says “This widely applied coping technique is what separates New Yorkers from tourist and seasoned citizens from those who has just come here” she shows and even Americans can stand out in this city because they don’t follow the rule that is essential for surviving in the big city. In the essays our narrator tells us stories that people has told where this rule was the key element in …show more content…
Our narrator fells like she is Living With Strangers since the people that are living around her have am not hiding what they are doing from fighting to walking around in un-derwear for everybody to see. It is like living with strangers because in a way you live with them by hearing what they are doing and be able to see how that live and so on but you don’t know the peo-ple you are seeing and