The correct answer is A) she makes the narrator aware that her identity takes on new meanings n Brooklin.
The statement that best explains how the girl on the sidewalk in Brooklyn influences the narrator in "Something Could Happen to You" is "she makes the narrator aware that her identity takes on new meanings n Brooklin."
This can be shown when the author writes that "Used to the sensual curves of rural Puerto Rico, my eyes had to adjust to the regular, aggressive two-dimensionality of Brooklyn. Raindrops pounded the hard streets, captured the dim silver glow of street lamps, bounced against sidewalks in glistening sparks, then disappeared, like tiny ephemeral jewels, into the darkness. Mami and Tata teased that I was disillusioned because the streets were not paved with gold. But I had no such vision of New York. I was disappointed by the darkness and fixed my hopes on the promise of light deep within the sparkling raindrops." (Esmeralda Santiago's excerpt).
"Something Could Happen to You" is a story written by Puerto Rican author Esmeralda Santiago, included in her 1998 book "Almost a Woman." It is an autobiographical book of the hardships that Santiago and her family lived when they moved to Brooklin, New York.
