Linda in the north

The North wasn't exactly what Linda pictured it to be, although her situation was better up in the northern states she didn't fell like she thought she would. Linda thought that while she was crossing the borders of the south into the north she would some sort of great feeling of what freedom felt like. She pictured it to be some great thing that was impossible to know what it felt like until you experienced it, but when she got there, she felt the same as she always had. It reminded me of The Great Gatsby, because she built the idea of feeling freedom but it wasn't like she thought it would be, just how Gatsby built up the idea of Daisy, but the idea of her was so much better then actually having her. When she go there she still had the feeling that she still had to look over her shoulder and was worried about her freedom being taken away from her. Linda also caught herself lying a lot while in the north because she didn't want people to figure out her complete life story. While Linda is there with Fanny she feels incomplete without her family and doesn't know many people. 

Her experience on the train was also not what she wanted it to be nor what she pictured. usually when she rides the train she can sit on a car behind all the white people for free and the conditions aren't as bad as they are on this train's car. She has to pay to be in the car and can't buy a decent ticket. The car is dirty filled with smoke and cramped.