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This 7 page paper uses John Jervis’s essay on the flâneur to analyze two other works: Edgar Allan Poe’s writing “Doings in Gotham” and Hitchcock’s classic “Rear Window.” The three works all examine the complexity of life in the city. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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its not really possible to define what a city is any more than its possible to be the same person at all times in a city; the argument is that
the city itself drives who people are from moment to moment, while theyre in that environment. This means that city dwellers are essentially unknowable. This paper considers some of these
ideas at greater length, and using John Jerviss essay on the city, in particular his remarks about a street character known as the fl?neur, analyzes the film Rear Window and
the article Doings of Gotham by Edgar Allan Poe. Discussion Jerviss essay speaks to the essential inability of anyone to truly come to grips with the city. It is beyond
comprehension and it is also demanding. Because it can be dangerous, Jervis suggests, we hardly ever reveal our true selves in connection with it; instead, we present a series of
facades or masks but keep ourselves hidden, since we never know who can be trusted in this chaotic environment. Jervis also mentions Virginia Woolf, and her observations that the city
is gendered: much of it is powerful, aggressive and associated with masculinity, but there is also much that is organic and beautiful, suggesting the feminine.1 Woolfs gendered city is found
in her "all-pervasive metaphor of street life as river-like, conveying a sense of dynamism and creative flow that is essentially organic"; a "young man and woman get into a cab,
and it glided off as if it were swept on by the current elsewhere."2 The masculine/feminine, organic/inorganic, beautiful/ugly dichotomy of the city is embodied in an ambiguous character that first
makes his appearance on the streets of Paris: the fl?neur, or stroller, who is part of the city and yet separate from it at the same time. The fl?neur is
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