Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz And The Wolf Of Wall Street

"His family were enormously wealthy – even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach – but now he’d left Chicago and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance, he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest. It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that."

Tom Walker is parsimony known as stingy. Tom Walker left a great part of unfinished and unfurnished of parsimony (237). Tom was a stern supervisor and censurer and believe every credit belongs to himself. “Let us get hold of the property’’, said he consolingly to himself, ‘’ and we will endeavor to do without the woman’’ (234). Tom was the universal friend of the needy and acted like a ‘’ friend in need’’, that is to say, he always exacted good pay and good security (236). Tom Walker trick people with their belongings by getting other people riches.

This jealousy surprisingly brings out the more selfless and responsible side in Duddy. Lennie is an intelligent boy who makes it into medical school and is highly regarded in the family. Although Lennie is more intelligent, he still falls into trouble and Duddy must save him. The problem is, Lennie performs an illegitimate abortion and the abortion goes wrong, so a doctor is called in and finds out. Once this happens Lennie flees town and no one knows where he is or how to find him, so Duddy takes on the challenge.

It can be observed, that both Willy Loman and Duddy Kravitz share an inner drive to acquire monetary wealth. Although this drive is instilled within them by the society they respectively live in, they experience diverging degrees of superficial success due to their ability, or lack there of, to adapt to the ruthless and competitive nature of a capitalistic society. It becomes evident that due to his

He opened a savings account for himself and deposited all of the money he had, except for the correct amount to pay change to Mr. Greyson, whom he owed from a shine the prior day. In paying his debt to Mr. Greyson, he earned his trust and bought himself an invitation to Sunday school and eventually lunch with the gentleman and his family. This was the start to Dick’s better life of saving his money, renting his own room, and meeting Fosdick, his new friend and private tutor. One day he ran an errand with Fosdick for his employer and the two rode the ferry when they witnessed a young boy, the age of 6, fall of the edge of the boat and into the water. Dick, not hearing the father’s offer of a reward for anyone who would save his son, dove in to save the boy anyhow. Once the boy had been returned safely to his father, the father was so grateful to Dick that he took him to have his wet suit dried and provided him with a suit nicer than his original suit from Frank. Dick then went in to speak with the man, as per his request, and was offered a position in his counting room with a wage of ten dollars per week, considerably higher than his wage would be at any other store or counting room. Dick gleefully accepted his offer and lived content knowing how hard he had worked for this day.

He has just received eight hundred dollars in total. He goes from being a child and escaping from his problems, to a 'man' with money. Duddy's ambitions are based off this childish greed. His greed drives his confidence and gives him an ego. When things do not go his way, he does not know where to turn and reverts to being greedy again.

The rest of his family thinks he is a failure and focuses on his “successful” brother Lennie. Simcha tells Duddy that “a man without land is nobody”. Despite being ignored by everyone he knows except Simcha Duddy takes his advice very seriously, he is discouraged by a lot of people including his own father, yet he decides to pursue his goal of owning land. To pursue his goal he gets a job in his uncle, Benjy’s company. Benjy is a wealthy clothing manufacturer who dislikes duddy and is perceptive of him. Even though he is constantly discourages and has to work for his uncle who does not like him Duddy does not give up on his dream of owning land which shows that he is

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a story about a young boy who is willing to do anything to get what he wants. The novel shows how we live in a materialistic society in which people are more concerned with achieving financial success rather than living in a life guided by clear morals and fair values. The three characters in the story that is more concerned with financial success rather than clear morals are: Duddy Kravitz, Jerry Dingleman and Mr. Cohen.

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