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- Ana’s tone here suggests that, as the only person who hasn’t left the neighborhood, she feels left behind. Insisting that she knows nothing about the current immigrants on the street also implies that the neighborhood isn’t tight-knit in the present.
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When the weather warms, Ana sees her several times in the mornings on her way to school, crouching down with her back to Ana’s window. Ana’s curiosity feels like a fever. It’s telling that Ana’s first thought is to call the police, as it emphasizes that Ana deeply distrusts her neighbors.
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In her descriptions of the neighborhood’s history over the...
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Ana has seen so many criminal acts from her apartment window that she's immediately suspicious when she sees a little black-haired girl hiding behind a fridge and burying something in the ground.
According to Ana, lots of people move into the neighborhood and then move out. So one day, Ana is peering out her window and she sees "a little black-haired girl, hiding behind that refrigerator" (2.3).
In her descriptions of the neighborhood’s history over the last 60 years or so, she describes the neighborhood as a “cheap hotel” where immigrants live only until they can afford to move elsewhere.
Ana uses a simile—comparing the Gibb Street area to a cheap hotel—to indicate that no one really cares about the neighborhood or wants to live there. Rather, it is only a temporary stopping place for people who can’t afford to live anywhere else.
After growing up on Gibb Street, Ana lived in a different Cleveland neighborhood before she moved back to her childhood home to take care of her parents. And since she spends a lot of her time indoors with a view of the garden, she can indulge her nosy habits and people watch all she wants.
The daughter of Romanian immigrants, Ana has lived in the neighborhood since 1919. It has always been a working-class neighborhood where groups come and go quickly—first Romanians, then Slovaks and Italians, and finally Black Americans from the South during the Great Depression.
