Summary: What Purpose Does Miss Mary Serve For The Narrator

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40.What purpose does Miss Mary serve for the narrator?
Miss Mary is the first person to show genuine care for the struggling narrator and wants to help him out of the goodness of her heart. She serves as someone who will heal the narrator enabling him to function properly so he can get back on his feet. With her compassion and care, she helps the narrator start to come back to life so he can go out and do something that's "a credit to the race." 41.Describe the alienation the narrator feels toward the end of this chapter.
The narrator has succumb to a state of confusion because he's not sure what his propose is anyone. He once believed that he would be an educator; he came to New York to earn enough money to head back to college. However, after …show more content…
After the factory hospital he realized that he just wasn't dedicated to his prior purpose in life anymore and that it's not longer what he seems the current him doing with his life. He doesn't really know what he wants todo, realizes he has no friends, and no job, so he starts to feel lonely, confused and "longed to go home." Chapter Thirteen
42.What is the metaphorical value of the yams?
The yams the narrator picks up from a vendor on the street are able to take him back to his childhood. The narrator began to recall how "at home [they'd] bake them in the hot coals of the fire place, had carried them cold to school for lunch; munched them secretly, squeezing the sweet pulp from the soft peel...." The simple sweet smell of these yams metaphorically represent his home so they reminded the narrator of those memories.
43.What is the narrator’s rhetorical argument as he addresses the crowd at the eviction of the old couple?
While the crowd is running rampant over the eviction of the old couples home, the narrator decides to speak up and say "we're a law-abiding, slow-to-anger bunch of folks turning the other cheek every day in the week." The narrator is trying to show the crowd that should not
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