Lutie moves into a small apartment on 116th Street in Harlem. Separated but not legally divorced from Bub's father, Jim, Lutie feels that Jim's inability to find employment, her decision to work as a domestic for a wealthy white family in Connecticut, and Jim's subsequent infidelity ruined her marriage. Lutie Johnson has an eight-year-old son, Bub, to support. Shifting between multiple perspectives, The Street uses extensive flashbacks to reveal its plot. It is the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies. It is Junto, through his manipulations to possess Lutie sexually, who ultimately leads Lutie to murder Junto's henchman, Boots. Lutie fully subscribes to the belief that if she follows the adages of Benjamin Franklin by working hard and saving wisely, she will be able to achieve the dream of being financially independent and move from the tenement in which she lives on 116th Street. Lutie is confronted by racism, sexism, and classism on a daily basis in her pursuit of the American dream for herself and her son, Bub. Petry's novel is a commentary on the social injustices that confronted her character, Lutie Johnson, as a single black mother during this period.
Set in World War II era Harlem, it centers on the life of Lutie Johnson. The Street is a novel published in 1946 by African-American writer Ann Petry.
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