McTeagueby Frank Norris | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
| Pages: | 304 |
| Year of Publication: | 1899 |
| Date Read: | 01/25/1998 |
| Notes: | The dentist McTeague marries Trina, whose acquisitiveness is revealed when she wins a lottery. McTeague, initially free of the destructive avarice that defines Trina is a bovine “natural man,” brutalized by the more rapacious urban characters. The marriage disintegrates as Trina becomes more and more miserly with her fortune, and McTeague drinks heavily. COMMENTS — In McTeague, Frank Norris sought to describe the influence of heredity and environment in human life. |
| My Rating: | 6 |