Summary

The narrator introduces the character Big City, who was raised in an orphanage in Trinidad and given his moniker because of his dreams of living in a large metropolis. Big City enters the weekly football lottery and is optimistic that he will win the pool. He fantasizes about what he will do with the winnings and tells Moses that when he wins, he will travel to “Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Bagdan, then after the States, San Francis, Chicago, New York, then after one of them yacht to sail in the Mediteran” (86). Later, Big City convinces Galahad to speak at a rally for racial equality, “egging him on for so, until at last it look like to save face [Galahad] really have to say something” (89). When Galahad begins speaking, Big City intentionally makes it difficult for him and jeers him for speaking unclearly...