It's Quiet Uptown Analysis

By the beginning of “It’s Quiet Uptown” Hamilton is alone, begging Eliza for forgiveness. He does this by using Eliza’s own words to ask for it, quoting both “The Schuyler Sisters” and “That Would be Enough,” the latter of which being a callback to the beginning of Eliza’s arc, and her entry into his life. He says to her “Just let me stay here by your side, that would be enough,” which is exactly what Eliza had asked him to do in “That would be Enough.” It validates Eliza’s words and actions, as they are finally affecting other people. However, her last major character development showed her revoking that request, so as Hamilton ask this, it is no longer Hamilton granting a request, but making one himself. He is admitting Eliza’s request was

At the same time, she makes it very clear this is a product of her own choices, and her will to memorialize her husaband. The first words she says are a fufillment of the narrative idea: “I put myself back in the narrative.” This is the completion of both arcs, as Eliza is completely now autonomous, and is choosing to act upon Hamilton’s legacy. On a textual level, it is also clear this is deliberate as her way of doing so is, going through his papers, a reversal of her destruction of them in “Burn.” In the beginning of the number, the company refers to "the story" as being Hamilton’s, but the longer the piece wears on, Eliza begins claim it as her own. The company continues to ask “will they tell your story?” whereas Eliza strays into “will they tell our story?” then finally, “will they tell my story?” As she claims Hamilton 's agency, she assumes his legacy and goals as well. After all her refusal of a legacy, she now not only accepts the burden of Hamilton’s, but makes its preservation her own. Part of that includes her language, as she is asking "what would be enough?" but is assuming Hamilton 's response, questioning instead "have I done enough?" This is Hamilton’s defining attribute, that constant striving, for a legacy, for the answer, for a legacy, and with Alexander Hamilton dead, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton becomes the titular Hamilton.

Hamilton: An American Musical is at its core, a story about stories, the people who write them, the people in them, but above all, the people that pass them on. Hamilton’s preoccupation with his image and controlling his legacy is, ultimately, what causes him to lose it. Whereas Eliza’s rejection of a legacy allows her more control over hers than any other character. It is there a duality is visible, that as Hamilton loses his control, Eliza gains her