CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -At the top of a three-story building in New York’s old Greenwich Village, Sue and Johnsy had their studio-Johnsy a frail, tiny girl from California, and Sue from Maine.

Detailed explanation-2: -SUE and Johnsy, two young artists, shared a small flat. The flat was on the third storey of an old house. Johnsy fell very seriously ill in November. She had pneumonia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sue and Johnsy lived at the top of a building with three floors. One of these young women came from Maine, the other from California. They had met at a restaurant on Eighth Street. There they discovered that they liked the same kind of art, the same kind of food, and the same kind of clothes.

Detailed explanation-4: -The houses in Greenwich Village had Dutch attics and eighteenth century gables. These offered the ideal setting for budding painters. Apart from this, the rent there was affordable for the painters who were still struggling in their careers.

Detailed explanation-5: -New York City’s original home of poets and peasants, Greenwich Village was a refuge for undiscovered artists and free thinkers. The cheap quarters of the village allowed these bohemians to escape the dreary, industrial world and live a penniless, enlightened lifestyle.