Ragtime Chapter 22 Summary

  • Mother's Younger Brother meets with soldiers and decides to build them better weapons and bombs. He has a few affairs with women, and often wanders the city at night.
  • He finds the offices of Emma Goldman's magazine Mother Earth. Emma remembers him, and invites him to a meeting at Cooper Union.
  • The meeting is in support of the Mexican Revolution. There's talk of a need for guns and ammo. Afterwards at a party Emma tries to get Mother's Younger Brother to forget about Evelyn, to live his life and be free.
  • Younger Brother leaves feeling overwhelmed and confused. On the way back to New Rochelle he stands between the train cars, looking up at the moon.