The Embezzler
“IN ANALYZING GUY'S narrative, I am struck by the way it skips over the years between his marriage and the ultimate catastrophe: a period of more than a quarter of a century. I wonder if there may not be a peculiarly American significance in such an emphasis on youth. Was Guy at twenty-five already complete and fixed in his groove, so that the balance of his story was simply the inevitable slide down the tracks to disaster?
Consider the outline biography that one fills in for a college reunion q...uestionnaire. Most of it is apt to be given over to school, college and trade school, to fraternities, academic honors and athletic teams, to military service, marriage and children, all matters occurring in youth, while the bulk of life, even in many cases the passion of life, is sloughed off with: "Employed by Buckley Carpets as assistant sales manager, 1912. Became President 1940." Anyone who has watched the sentimentality of a college reunion will have noticed how deeply old graduates love to indulge the dream that their finest hours occurred before they had to face the world.MoreLess
Consider the outline biography that one fills in for a college reunion q...uestionnaire. Most of it is apt to be given over to school, college and trade school, to fraternities, academic honors and athletic teams, to military service, marriage and children, all matters occurring in youth, while the bulk of life, even in many cases the passion of life, is sloughed off with: "Employed by Buckley Carpets as assistant sales manager, 1912. Became President 1940." Anyone who has watched the sentimentality of a college reunion will have noticed how deeply old graduates love to indulge the dream that their finest hours occurred before they had to face the world.MoreLess
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