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''The Narrows'' is a 1953 novel by African-American writer Ann Petry. “The Narrows” is the name of the African-American section of the fictional town of Monmouth, Connecticut, in which most of the novel’s action takes place. Though less famous than Petry’s earlier novel, ''The Street'', ''The Narrows'' is her longest novel and, critic Hilary Holladay argues, her most complex: “''The Narrows'' represents the full flowering of Petry’s preoccupation with human relationships.”〔Holladay, Hilary. ''Ann Petry''. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.〕 The novel is written in the third person, narrated from the perspective of several different characters, often in flashback episodes. ==Setting== The epigraph in ''The Narrows'' from ''Henry V'' suggests that Shakespeare’s history play is the inspiration for the fictional town name of Monmouth, Connecticut:
“The Narrows” itself, as a neighborhood within Monmouth, is also called by the names “Eye of the Needle, The Bottom, Little Harlem, Dark Town, Niggertown—because Negroes had replaced those earlier immigrants, the Irish, the Italians and the Poles.”〔Petry, Ann. ''The Narrows''. Boston: The Riverside Press, 1953, p. 5.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Narrows (Petry novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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