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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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English class 9 cbse

pls. solve my query from the "Best Seller" by O Henry...
1. "I am not looking for smoke , even if I do come from Pittsburgh".
What does the word 'smoke' mean here?
2. "With that laugh she sounded like a mileage -book to me."
What does this mean?
  

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Anonymous "I am not looking for smoke , even if I do come from Pittsburgh". What does the word 'smoke' mean here? She has just asked him if the man he is looking for is a white man.

  • Anonymous "I am not looking for smoke , even if I do come from Pittsburgh".
  • What does the word 'smoke' mean here?
  • She has just asked him if the man he is looking for is a white man.
  • He tries to be clever by referring to black men as "smoke", after their dark color, and at the same time working in that he is from Pittsburgh, a place notorious for its heavy air pollution from the steel mills.
  • Earlier in the story he calls Pittsburgh the City of Diurnal Night for the same reason.
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Anonymous"I am not looking for smoke , even if I do come from Pittsburgh". What does the word 'smoke' mean here?
She has just asked him if the man he is looking for is a white man. He tries to be clever by referring to black men as "smoke", after their dark color, and at the same time working in that he is from Pittsburgh, a place notorious for its heavy air p

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