Duddy Kravitz

After graduating high school, Duddy finds a job as a waiter at Laurentian Mountains. He leaves his family back home and goes to work to prove that he is capable of making money. He accepts a challenging waiter job to show his uncle that he is as skillful as his brother, Lennie. Most of the employees at Laurentian Mountains are college students, “...first and second year McGill boys” (64), other than Duddy. Most of the college boys come from “more prosperous families and Duddy found it difficult”(64). Despite being treated inferiorly at home and in the workplace, Duddy is resilient in working hard for money. While working with college boys, he is seen as inferior and someone who is ‘odd’, because of how poor he is. "Oh it, has a grandfather"(70), demonstrates that by calling Duddy ‘it, ' they are bullying him. These experiences take a huge toll on how Duddy sees the world and the way he begins to interact with those around him.

Through a Marxist’s eyes, Death of a Salesman represents the struggle of middle-class families in a capitalistic world. From an early age, kids are taught to do well in school, be involved with sports and activities, and to go on to college; all in hopes of achieving the American Dream. This dream of obtaining success through hard work leads many into the

Through characterisation, the author is able to construct representations of disempowerment. One of the most important characters in the story is “Fat Maz” and her parents. In the story, the main character is portrayed as being fat, unmotivated to do anything and living a very bland life. For example,

Come to think of it, Duddy’s life has been morally derailed ever since he was a child. As a child, he took advantage of the fact that as a minor, he was not susceptible to lawsuits. He broke the law frequently in attempt to obtain more wealth. Such examples of this would include his fraudulent behaviour with stamp companies, his selling of stolen hockey sticks, and his distribution of pornographic comic books. In an entrepreneurial sense, Duddy had the correct goals;

In The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald has a running theme that excessive wealth and materialism will lead to carelessness, corruption, and destruction. Most of the characters in the book reflect this theme, like Tom and Daisy as they were careless to run away from their difficulties because they have the money and leave their mess for someone else to clean it up. However, some characters go against this theme, like Jay Gatsby. He came from a poor family, but grew to become a gentleman, and used that to lead another life, become rich, and one day would get the girl of his dreams. He uses that money on parties for the people and trying to get Daisy to go with him. Then there is someone else in real life that goes against this theme named Elon Musk. He found his money through the internet as he started his career founding companies, one of them being Paypal. He now uses this money to prolong humanities survival with companies such as SpaceX and Tesla Motorsports. The American Entrepreneur Elon Musk and Jay Gatsby goes against Scott Fitzgerald’s theme of excessive wealth and materialism will lead to carelessness, corruption, and destruction by using their money generously.

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.

The importance of hard work and earning your way instills a sense of independence within the young generation who was reading the McGuffey textbooks. In the stories “Henry, the Boot-Black” (128) and “Poor Davy” (130) both boys, living in poverty, are praised for their work to support their mother. Working hard to earn a living, even at a young age, is commended and the value of family is reiterated. There is a belief that hard work prepares and enables one to lead a prosperous life. In “Charlie and Rob” (133) and “Advantages of Industry” (97), hard work pays off and is portrayed as the only way to become successful. This core value of work ethic for the American will be important in the changing world of industrialization and effect the attitude of the working class American toward those of wealth, as well as immigrants.

In "The Rocking Horse Winner" D. H. Lawrence tells us about the traumatic downfall of an upper middle class family struggling to maintain appearances through habitual overspending. Both the parents with common jobs and "expensive tastes" (pg.646) exploit all their resources to give their family the best; however, it was only to retain their high status in the society. "The Rocking Horse Winner" depicts a common demon we all face; greed, society's need for more possessions and money often drives people to do drastic things.<p>The magnificently decorated house had always been haunted by the unspoken phrase, "there must be more money" (pg.646). "Nobody said it aloud. Just as no one says: We are

Duddy’s morality when it comes to earning money is shifted because of the example his uncle plays in his life with his business. Uncle Benjy tried to keep Duddy out of as much trouble as possible, he also admits his lack of attention to Duddy at the end of the novel; “I wish I’d made more time for you. God help me but I wish I’d seen what your zeyda saw” (Page 245) saying that Duddy is indeed worth something and that the thing that his grandfather saw in him was absolutely

In the novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz written by Mordecai Richler, we meet Duddy Kravitz, a young entrepreneur who is trying to become successful, as any other business man would. Throughout the novel Duddy meets numerous different people who are either business partners or people he believes he can get advice from to allow Duddy to gain wealth. Duddy is a well known culprit of being a person who only looks out for himself in his business relationships. Other people he meets have the same intentions as him, advance their businesses or aspirations, while using Duddy as someone who can help them, but their only goal is to make themselves better.

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 plot structure not only forces people to reevaluate their views on capitalism, the American Dream, and opportunity itself, but furthermore advocates social change. The book implicitly suggests communist ideals through the characters of Tom and Casey. Casey, in his questioning of Christian dogma, begins to reevaluate equality, in the terminology of what is holy.

The main two people who the author really focused on the most in the story has to be Frank and Tub since both of them reveal the most information about their internal conflicts that they are facing to each other both going through things that anyone else would find not being normal at all. We will start off with Frank his internal conflicts is revealed when he is in love with his babysitter which is odd to think about it but in reality it's what he feel is best for him which his interior conflict that he faces that it is wrong for a older guy to be dating a young girl. He has not told his wife about this since he is not sure how to tell her he is lying to her which also comes full circle with the major theme of lying in the story. The next person that is going through a huge internal conflict is Tub who is going through a weight problem as the story goes on he is being called fat by Kenny he later admits that he has tried to live a healthy lifestyle by only eating an egg and a stick of celery.

In David Mamet’s play, “Glengarry Glen Ross”, a group of sales representatives, Shelly Levene, Richard Roma, Dave Moss, and George Aaronow, are placed into a competition that sets all of them against each other. Their bosses challenge the four men to compete against one another in a sales competition where the winner with the most sales will receive a brand new Cadillac and the two people with the least sales will lose their job. With the ultimatum of losing their job, the men struggle to out due each other in hopes that they will come out on top (Mamet 21). Through dialogue and tone, Mamet presents the characters with a sense of desperation and determination; thus, he propels the story into countless affairs of deception and cheating, and

It is evident from the movie that the characters’ ways of doing things and earning living are quite different (Pollock 1). Grann, worked hard for thirty years to build his reputation, from which he ripped his fortune that ranged from different departments of numerous companies and