Essay - My little bit of country
Essay on ‘’My Little Bit of Country’’
‘’My little Bit of Country’’ is an essay, written by Susan Cheever, about Central Park. Susan Cheever acts as the narrator, telling parts of her life story, from her childhood days until her present, from her point-of-view. The story takes place in the urban Manhattan, putting the New York City life in perspective, of a life in the suburbs.
The story begins with the protagonists’ first memory of summer mornings in Central Park with her father, after his return from fighting in World War II, and since the story progresses chronologically, it can be presumed that the story’s timeline begins in the 1940s, and as earlier mentioned, ends in the narrators present.
While living in New York in her earliest years, Susan Cheever is an only child, living in a two-bedroom apartment near the Queensborough Bridge. In attempt to explain the greatness of New York she writes on page 8, line 36: ‘’The city in those years just after the war was a romantic place, a place of dreams and the beginnings of prosperity for people like my young parents’’ showing that already at a young age she felt a platonic love for the city in which she lived. She got infatuated by the idea of New York at such a young age, that she seemed to have created an idea, of which being that nothing could compare to New York. With these ideals she moved to the suburbs with her parents, where she was living her parents’ dream of the white picket-fenced house, gaining a younger brother and a dog, in Westchester. Already knowing what she thought was best, she puts the two different ways of living in perspective through personal experience: Page 2, line 110: ‘’Why would I want to swim in someone’s muddy pond crawling with leeches when I could perch myself on a marble basin and cool myself with splashing clear water, topping it off with a lemonade from the cart on fifth Avenue?’’
Page 2, line 115: ‘’Why would I want to scrape around the rough, dangerous ice of a country
‘’My little Bit of Country’’ is an essay, written by Susan Cheever, about Central Park. Susan Cheever acts as the narrator, telling parts of her life story, from her childhood days until her present, from her point-of-view. The story takes place in the urban Manhattan, putting the New York City life in perspective, of a life in the suburbs.
The story begins with the protagonists’ first memory of summer mornings in Central Park with her father, after his return from fighting in World War II, and since the story progresses chronologically, it can be presumed that the story’s timeline begins in the 1940s, and as earlier mentioned, ends in the narrators present.
While living in New York in her earliest years, Susan Cheever is an only child, living in a two-bedroom apartment near the Queensborough Bridge. In attempt to explain the greatness of New York she writes on page 8, line 36: ‘’The city in those years just after the war was a romantic place, a place of dreams and the beginnings of prosperity for people like my young parents’’ showing that already at a young age she felt a platonic love for the city in which she lived. She got infatuated by the idea of New York at such a young age, that she seemed to have created an idea, of which being that nothing could compare to New York. With these ideals she moved to the suburbs with her parents, where she was living her parents’ dream of the white picket-fenced house, gaining a younger brother and a dog, in Westchester. Already knowing what she thought was best, she puts the two different ways of living in perspective through personal experience: Page 2, line 110: ‘’Why would I want to swim in someone’s muddy pond crawling with leeches when I could perch myself on a marble basin and cool myself with splashing clear water, topping it off with a lemonade from the cart on fifth Avenue?’’
Page 2, line 115: ‘’Why would I want to scrape around the rough, dangerous ice of a country