Simon and Charlotte marry, and Simon hatches a plan for Augie to marry Lucy Magnus, Charlotte’s cousin. The Magnuses, however, are not enthusiastic about Augie, largely because of his seeming lack of ambition and direction. He continues to work hard as Simon’s assistant at the coal yard, and business for the ruthless Simon rapidly improves….
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Plot Summary of The Adventures of Augie March: Chapters 8, 9, 10 & 11
‘‘From here a new course was set,’’ declares Augie. He attends a city college at night and finds work at a clothing store during the day. Simon works in the same store, and the family is doing well enough to hire a mulatto (a person of both black and white ancestry), Molly Simms, to help…
Plot Summary of The Adventures of Augie March: Chapters 5, 6 & 7
In the fall of 1929, just before the stock market crash, Augie goes to work for a local businessman named William Einhorn. Augie calls Einhorn ‘‘the first superior man I knew’’ and becomes the ‘‘arms and legs’’ of his severely handicapped mentor. The Einhorn fortune was made by Einhorn’s father, the Commissioner. Augie is essentially…
Plot Summary of The Adventures of Augie March: Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 4
The first four chapters of The Adventures of Augie March introduce us to Augie and his family and the immigrant, Jewish world of his section of Chicago. Augie, the narrator and main character, declares in the opening sentence that ‘‘I am an American, Chicago born . . . and go at things as I have…
The Adventures of Augie March: A Brief Introduction
Published in 1953, Saul Bellow’s sweeping, comedic novel The Adventures of Augie March, was heralded by many reviewers as an instant classic, and it established its author as a major voice in American fiction. It is a bold, ambitious novel that claims that the story of a young, poor, fatherless, Jewish man belongs at the…