comment on language

The language the author uses in crafting the Harlem Shuffle narrative is both accessible and lyric. In some passages, the narrator will attend solely to the hard tactile details going on around Carney. In other passages, the sways in Carney's thoughts will yank the narrative into prolonged passages of reverie or meditation. In other passages still, Carney's wanderings around the city will inspire the narrator's lengthy and vivid descriptions. In Part 1, Chapter 6, for example, when Carney visits his in-laws with his family, his mind wanders into thoughts about Strivers' Row. The narrator accordingly shifts into an observational and meditative tone: "As a kid he'd admired the neat yellow brick and white limestone houses, plopped down in the middle of Harlem.