rt of themselves behind. While driving around the neighborhood, the narrator notices how the boys he sees in front of the houses are like the boys he and his brother used to be. The two generations are similar in that they are "smothering in these houses."(par. 73) The houses, like the lifestyle of Harlem, are a metaphorical trap. Harlem itself is compared to a trap.
             Baldwin also repeats the image of darkness. The narrator voices his c
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