In "A Quilt Of A Country", Quindlen's point in comparing present-day New York with Philadelphia in her father's time is that in America, there is a clinging to the ethnicity, in background and custom, that has undermined the concept of unity. In her father's time in Philadelphia, Jewish boys would walk several blocks out of their way to avoid the Irish divide of Chester Avenue. I hope this helps.
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<em><u>sorry</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>I</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>don't</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>understand</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>your</u></em><em><u> </u></em><em><u>language</u></em>
The character Childe Harold was a vehicle for Byron's beliefs and ideas, and is a hero version of himself,<span> Byron was able to express his view that "man's greatest tragedy is that he can conceive of a perfection which he cannot attain". </span>