Analysis Of Little Egypt In Devil In The White City By George Pangalos

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During the semester, we read about Little Egypt in several instances in our assigned books. In Devil in the White city, George Pangalos received a list of passengers “included one of Egypt’s foremost practitioners of the danse du ventre, the young and lushly feminine Farida Mazhar, destined to become a legend in America” (Larson 208). In Fair Weather, the grandfather went to the fair and asks, “Is this where that girl called Little Egypt does her dance?” (Peck 67). We were never introduced to Little Egypt and Rosie said “that they didn’t let Little Egypt out on the stage. To see her dance, you had to pay and go inside” (68). In Against The Day, Chick Counterfly says that he and “old Suckling here being starboard liberty section will just head