How I Live Now Contrasting Regions: New York and England Quotes

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Quote #10

Footpaths are god's gift to people trying to travel long distances without using roads. I guess in America we'd have to crash a path through the woods but here it was all nice and civilized and half the time they were even marked with little arrows. (1.23.15)

Oh, how civilized the British are—even in wartime, Daisy notices the ways in which the polite tendencies of English people are helping her. A clear contrast between the civilized nature of the British and the wild, frenzied nature of America.