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The novel “Let The Great World Spin” by Colum McCann has lots of different little stories in it, and all of them intersect in one way or another. But the truth is that the whole novel is centered about the miraculous tightrope walker that has no fear and symbolically represents the main theme of the literary work – “New York Never Looks Back… The Past… It’s Gone… It is of no significance whatsoever…”.
One of the quotes I like the most is in the chapter entitled “Part of the Parts” in Book Three. It is when judge Soderberg gives a perfect description of the tightrope walker in just a few words: “A statue that had no regard for the past”. And this statue represents a forward-looking aspect of life in New York City, just the way the Statue of Liberty represents freedom and prosperity.
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