Drunken: The Destruction of New York

 "The great city lies trembling, panting, quivering in her wild, white heat of intoxication, excitement, madness- DRUNKEN and devilish pursuits of power, pleasure, and gold."

 Hello, my name is Jeelyan I'm in Professor Cooper's Violence in America and Culture class in Lagcc. During class he asked us to get into pairs then he gave us each, a passage from the Novel "The Destruction of New York". In the passage that he assigned to us he told us to focus on a word, the word that we where to focus on was "drunken".
  In the passage new york is described as drunken but as a drunken female. A female in that time was not supposed get drunk or act in any improper matter or unladylike. But New York was a drunken female, she intoxicated with greed and drunken power. New York wasn't being the lady that she was was supposed to be she was losing her appeal.
 The passage that i feel that reflects this passage is
  "She never rest. She never sleeps. She has not slept since the days of the birth and baptism. Even her people scarcely seem to sleep. The run forward day and night, night and ay until each one, until each one, in the impetuous rushing, come suddenly to the end of his road, and so falls headlong into his grave." I find that this passage reflects the other passage because it shows how New York intoxicated its people with its drunken excitement.