Brett+Connection+2

Home Second Wall Third Wall Fourth Wall

The passage of //Ragged Dick// associated with this drawing of the Fifth Avenue Hotel is actually about the boy's walk to the very same hotel. But there are other associations which can be made besides this obvious one. The penciled but elegant drawing, like //Ragged Dick//, gives one a sense of an older time, a time of pristine ideals, like those preached in the book. That the drawing is only done in black and white give the viewer an even further feeling of the past. There is also a sort of grandness common in //Ragged Dick// and this drawing, a part of the American identity, but an urban grandness rather than a natural one. Even though the building pictured here pales in comparison to today;s skyscrapers, the impression of grandeur is still evident.

Home Second Wall Third Wall Fourth Wall