neighbor dives
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- _kg_layer
- 0
- attitude
- mocking, scornful
- biblical_identification
- Dives
- description
- A neighbor who openly mocks the narrator's decision to build a piazza facing north, later depicted as suffering in his own southern piazza.
- relationship_to_narrator
- neighbor
Relationships
- mocksThe Narrator
- description
- Neighbor Dives expresses derision towards the narrator's decision to build a piazza facing north.
- source
- Chunk 2chunk
- source_text
- all the neighborhood, neighbor Dives, in particular, broke, too—into a laugh
- mocksNorthern Piazza
- description
- Neighbor Dives specifically ridicules the idea of a 'Piazza to the north!', calling it a 'Winter piazza!'.
- source
- Chunk 2chunk
- source_text
- Piazza to the north! Winter piazza!
- suggests_viewingAurora Borealis
- description
- Neighbor Dives sarcastically suggests the narrator wants to watch the Aurora Borealis from his cold northern piazza.
- source
- Chunk 2chunk
- source_text
- Wants, of winter midnights, to watch the Aurora Borealis, I suppose
- identifies_asDives
- description
- The narrator refers to his neighbor as 'poor old Dives', drawing a parallel to the biblical figure tormented in purgatory.
- source
- Chunk 2chunk
- source_text
- poor old Dives, tormented in the purgatory of his piazza to the south
- extracted_fromChunk 2
- extracted_at
- 2026-02-22T19:08:15.907Z
- source
- Chunk 2chunk