Answer:
What exactly do you need?
<span>Compare the ways Silas Marner and the peddler are treated as suspects in a robbery..
(1) </span><span>Both received an apology for the false accusation.
</span>(2) Both are innocent.
<span>(3) Both were found guilty.</span>
The personification in this is “But here and there a few cars groaning creep...” the idea this personification gives about New York is probably that New York is [obviously] just waking up and people are starting to drive their cars around the city.