This story takes place on the streets of New York City. Barbara Lazear Ascher tells us a very detailed story as she walks the streets of New York, observing the actions of everyone around her. She first begins to observe a homeless man and a woman pushing her child in a stroller. She watches as the man approaches the women with his eyes on the child. The women grippes the stroller tightly and then reaches for her purse. After, digging through her purses she takes out a dollar bill and hands it too the man. Barbara asks the readers “was it fear or compassion that motivated the gift?”. It most likely was a combination of both because she wanted to use generosity to deter a potential threat, but she also saw a broken unresponsive man that had