identify and comment on the setting of the story Miguel Street

Miguel Street is set within modern day Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Miguel Street is a street in western Port of Spain. The period ranges throughout much of World War II and after the war. Many Americans are stationed in the area but by and large the people are the darker skinned, poorer people of Port of Spain. V.S. Naipaul, the author, indeed grew up in these circumstances. Naipaul has a habit of writing novels about forgotten peoples around the world. Miguel Street is partly autobiographical but also continues Naipaul's theme of focusing on the forgotten.