Judge Soderberg's Let The Great World Spin

The novel Let The Great World Spin is revolved around how this is one small world. It shows how one person is linked to another and it goes on like a chain reaction. In some form or another we all know each other in this world, counties, states, and cities. In this novel, all the characters are drawn so close to one another without them even realizing it. The web that holds them together is New York, Judge Soderberg and the tightrope walker. This novel has two important characters that begin the connection to the rest of the other characters. The first one is Judge Soderberg, he is the judge that reviews the cases of the prostitutes Jazzyln and Tillie and as well as the tight rope walkers case. The prostitutes involve a man named Corrigan who looks after them a lot. He has an older brother named Ciaran and he begins to like a woman named Lara who was involved in the cause of Corrigan
Through out this whole book, the only characters that are not really involved in any other characters life would be the story of Etherwest which is about the hackers and Tag, the story about the boy who is a photographer. Etherwest not only takes place in New York but also in California. All the hackers involved in the prank phone call to the payphone in New York are from an institute found in California. "-People! he says again. I got this nutjob here.Guy from California. Go figure. Hey. You there?"(Pg 108) The Hackers are not connected to any of the other characters expect the tightrope walker. They make no effect onto the other characters lives as well as in the story Tag. The young photographer never comes across any of the characters pathways. The only thing that connects him is the tightrope walker. He was one of the photographers who was able to capture a picture of the man on the tightrope which he turned into the Newspaper. That is how most of them come around and connect to the tightrope