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Response To: THE NEW YORK TRILOGY 1) City of Glass The first thing that struck me about this story is all the imagery used, in particular all the use of color. For example, the author goes into great detail about the color of clothes the characters are wearing, the color of their eyes, even hair and skin. “Everything about Peter Stillman was white. White shirt, open at the neck; white pants, white shoes, white socks. Against the pallor of his skin, the flaxen thinness of his hair, effect was almost transparent, as though one could see through to the blue veins behind the skin of his fact. This blue was almost the same as the blue of his eyes: a milky blue that seemed to dissolve into a mixture of sky and clouds.” (Pages 17 & 18) The thing that disturbed me about the story was the fact that nothing ever really gets resolved. You never learn what happens to the younger Stillman, his wife, or even what ultimately becomes of Quinn. Yet, at the same time it’s rather thrilling. The reader is left to imagine what could have happened, and invent an ending. It is also a lesson in realizing that some things in life don’t make sense. Es