How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Her hair was plastered to her neck. More astonishing was the thick, brackish mud that covered her skirt and shoes. (1.153)
New York City is foreign to the Golem and the Golem is foreign to New Yorkers. Even people who have seen everything aren't used to seeing a woman come out of the ocean as though she just went to get her mail.
Quote #2
Why did everyone need money? And what exactly was money? (3.4)
The concept of money is totally foreign to the Golem, and she just doesn't understand what the point is. Why don't people just make and take what they need?
Quote #3
"Imagine […] that you are asleep, dreaming your human dreams. And then, when you wake, you find yourself in an unknown place. […] And then, a strange creature finds you and says, 'An Arbeely! But I thought Arbeely's were only tales told to children! Quick, you must hide, and pretend to be one of us, for the people here would be frightened of you if they knew.'" (3.107)
The Jinni crafts this brilliant analogy to explain his "otherness" to Arbeely. It's an otherness that all immigrants experience as they try to fit in in a new country, but with the Jinni, the foreign feeling is turned up to the extreme.