The Street Ann Petry Analysis

You're alone in an unfamiliar, dirty The-Street-Ann-Petryand bitter city, just looking for a place to spend the night. The Street by Ann Petry is a novel about a woman, Lutie Johnson, who finds herself in this situation. The relationship between Lutie Johnson and the city-based setting is established by the use of (giving a non-living thing qualities of a living thing/existence of a perfect living representation of something), (putting pictures into your mind) and description, in The Street by Ann Petry.
In her novel, Petry uses (giving a non-living thing qualities of a living thing/existence of a perfect living representation of something) in the interest of beginning and building on a relationship between the setting and Lutie Johnson. At the end of the third paragraph, the wind is …show more content…
Most of the (putting pictures into your mind) included in the novel, such as Each piece of (putting pictures into your mind) that Petry chooses to include in her novel shows/tells about a little bit more about the relationship between Lutie and the setting.
Petry descriptively describes/shows in her novel, in order to establish a relationship between the setting and the main character, Lutie. The first 34 lines of the novel are mainly focused on describing the health of the Earth/the surrounding conditions. Throughout these lines, Petry uses words like "dirt and dust and dirt," to negatively describe/show the setting and make it seem bad/ugly/plain to the reader. (Lines 22-23) Along with this, the setting is also showed/described as "cold" and harsh, by the actions of the wind, "violent attack." (Line 9) However, (put two things next to each other), is Lutie Johnson, whom when first introduced, is seen as words like "softly and warmly." (Line 37) The description and contrast of the setting and Lutie shows the reader a lot about their