In the story "The Third and Final Continent" the narrator lives in India, then moves to London, then finally to America. The title of this story tells us that the narrator has been to three different continents and chooses to stay in the third. The third continent just happens to be are vary own North America (the melting pot of the world). As soon as the narrator arrives he decides to stays at the YMCA. After saving some money he decides to move some where a little more like home. He responds to an advertisement in the paper and ends up living with an elderly woman. At fist he is very respectful and courteous to the elderly women. The narrator does not feel that he owes the old woman anything and does not really go out of his way for her.

But after he discovers that the elderly...