“Evil seems to be part of the very materials that the sidewalks are made out of,” Betty Smith wrote in 1942.
A year earlier, she was an unknown writer, negotiating with her publisher about manuscript edits and the date of publication for her first book,Now she was one of the lucky few. Her book was spotted in cafés, on buses, and in bookstores all over town. The following year,New York in the 1940s was not the city we know today. The Empire State Building had not reached its.
It seemed like everyone wanted to declare some affiliation with the novel-turned-film and, by extension, with Brooklyn. Even readers who had never set foot in the borough nonetheless found themselves enchanted by it through Smith’s portrayal.As one reader wrote to Smith, “Raised as a ‘rebel of the old South,’ Brooklyn has long been my symbol of all yankee, thus learning to hate it; but now I have learned to love it through Francie’s eyes … as Francie loved it.
There, her work for her playwriting classes led to a prestigious playwriting prize, and then an invitation to study at Yale School of Drama. Divorced at that point, Smith was free to pursue her education in theater at Yale. The theme of self-improvement through education madeReaders were quick to see the novel as a paean to Brooklyn, and often sought to bond with Smith over their presumed shared love of Brooklyn.
“Evil seems to be part of the very materials that the sidewalks are made out of and the wood and the brick of the houses,” she added.As she explained in her 1942 letter, Smith perceived Brooklyn’s current situation as the result of a changing population and growing crime: “A hundred years ago, it was a quiet peaceful village settled by hard-working, sturdy, honest burghers,” Smith reflected in her letter, adding that even 25 years ago, Williamsburg was a gentler place.
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