1. Contrast the narrator's encounter with Sybil with that of the woman in red whose husband came home early.
The narrator is actually looking for a woman to get information out of when he comes across Sybil. The lady in the red was the one who approached him in Chapter 19. The narrator actually liked the fact that she was a married woman and he made sure her husband would catch them. He seduced Sybil instead of her seducing him, which is what happened with the women in red. He is in control this time. The narrator is shocked when Sybil asks him to pretend to rape her and that she might be a nymphomaniac. They actually don't have sex.
2. What is the significance of the last line in the chapter?
To demonstrate the narrator is still running from his true identity and now he is running right back into Harlem, which has shaped his identity deeply. Harlem is ever changing.
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