1.1. Daphne Merkin is the narrator of this article.
1.2. "At the tail end of the summer, I happened to stay with my teenage daughter at the rented house of friends in Southampton. "
1.3. The speaker uses first person pronouns.
2. Action
3. Occasion
3.1. This took place at Gin Lane, NY in the summer of 2007.
3.2. "At the tail end of the summer..." "we came to the mythic Gin Lane..." "Back in New York, where I live in the so-called Bubble (the Upper East Side)"
3.3. The speaker references all of these places. The article was published in October of 2007, meaning that this probably took place that summer.
