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717 | 1156_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Babbitt's in his office, his secretary comes in to inform him that Tanis Judique is calling to ask about some repairs to her apartment. He takes the call, and Tanis tells him that her roof is beginning to leak and that she'd like him to fix it. He offers to come over personally to do the work. Once he's off the ph... | [
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"MISS McGOUN came into his private office at three in the afternoon with\n\"Lissen, Mr. Babbitt; there's a Mrs. Judique on the 'phone--wants to see\nabout some repairs, and the salesmen are all out. Want to talk to her?\"",
"\"All right.\"",
"The voice of Tanis Judique was clear and pleasant. The black c... |
718 | 1156_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that he knows he has Tanis Judique's support, Babbitt feels like he can be open with his newfound liberalism. At the Athletic Club, he even gets a kick out of bothering people with his views and making them argue until they're red in the face. But even though he likes annoying most people, Babbitt is intimidated by... | [
"I",
"THE assurance of Tanis Judique's friendship fortified Babbitt's\nself-approval. At the Athletic Club he became experimental. Though\nVergil Gunch was silent, the others at the Roughnecks' Table came to\naccept Babbitt as having, for no visible reason, \"turned crank.\" They\nargued windily with him, and he ... |
719 | 1156_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One summer ago, Myra Babbitt's letters had shown just how badly she wanted to come home and see Babbitt. This time, though, they don't even mention the thought of returning. And in truth, Babbitt doesn't really care if she comes home. That said, Babbitt still tells himself that he needs to slow down. He even persuades ... | [
"I",
"THE summer before, Mrs. Babbitt's letters had crackled with desire to\nreturn to Zenith. Now they said nothing of returning, but a wistful\n\"I suppose everything is going on all right without me\" among her dry\nchronicles of weather and sicknesses hinted to Babbitt that he hadn't\nbeen very urgent about h... |
720 | 1156_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While he's away from Myra, Babbitt feels guilty about the way he's treated her. Ultimately, he respects her way more than he respects Tanis Judique and The Bunch. When he tries to stay away from Tanis, though, she starts calling him at his office and asking why he doesn't come around anymore. She wants to know that he ... | [
"I",
"WHEN he was away from her, while he kicked about the garage and swept\nthe snow off the running-board and examined a cracked hose-connection,\nhe repented, he was alarmed and astonished that he could have flared out\nat his wife, and thought fondly how much more lasting she was than the\nflighty Bunch. He w... |
721 | 1156_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Babbit gets back from Tanis', Myra asks him if he had a good time out. But he answers that he had a terrible time. He also tells her straight-up that he's been out to see a woman and he accuses her of forcing him to do it with all her nagging. Myra actually backs down at this point and apologizes for anything she ... | [
"I",
"HIS wife was up when he came in. \"Did you have a good time?\" she\nsniffed.",
"\"I did not. I had a rotten time! Anything else I got to explain?\"",
"\"George, how can you speak like--Oh, I don't know what's come over you!\"",
"\"Good Lord, there's nothing come over me! Why do you look for trouble\na... |
722 | 1156_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The more Myra defends the business community to Babbitt, the more he can feel himself growing distant from his wife. One night, though, Myra is awakened by a terrible pain in her side. Babbitt calls the doctor, who comes and eventually diagnoses Myra with acute appendicitis. She has to go to the hospital instantly for ... | [
"I",
"HE tried to explain to his wife, as they prepared for bed, how\nobjectionable was Sheldon Smeeth, but all her answer was, \"He has such\na beautiful voice--so spiritual. I don't think you ought to speak of him\nlike that just because you can't appreciate music!\" He saw her then as a\nstranger; he stared bl... |
723 | 1156_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | With Babbitt's support, The Good Citizens' League becomes one of the most powerful organizations in Zenith, ensuring that as many people as possible accept the gospel of free market capitalism. All over town, socialists are getting assaulted and their offices are being burned. During these weeks, his daughter Verona ge... | [
"I",
"THE Good Citizens' League had spread through the country, but nowhere\nwas it so effective and well esteemed as in cities of the type of\nZenith, commercial cities of a few hundred thousand inhabitants, most\nof which--though not all--lay inland, against a background of\ncornfields and mines and of small to... |
724 | 1156_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a morning in April 1920, George F. Babbitt, a 46-year-old real estate dealer, awakens in his house in the exclusive Floral Heights section of Zenith, a medium-sized, Midwestern city. Zenith is a typically expanding modern city with new factories and office buildings, modern homes, fine roads and express railroad ser... | [
"THE towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of\nsteel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as\nsilver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and\nbeautifully office-buildings.",
"The mist took pity on the fretted structures of earlier generations: th... |
694 | 1156_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before leaving the office for lunch, Babbitt hustles about importantly, giving unnecessary instructions to his employees. He lights a cigar, forgetting that he has just determined to give up smoking, and despite his many resolutions to get more exercise, he decides to drive to lunch, rather than walk three blocks. Befo... | [
"BABBITT'S preparations for leaving the office to its feeble self during\nthe hour and a half of his lunch-period were somewhat less elaborate\nthan the plans for a general European war.",
"He fretted to Miss McGoun, \"What time you going to lunch? Well, make\nsure Miss Bannigan is in then. Explain to her that if... |
725 | 1156_chapters_6-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After lunch, Babbitt returns to work and takes a prospective customer out to see a property. Afterward, he and Henry T. Thompson, his father-in-law and partner, go shopping for a new car for the older man. Babbitt is able to get a discount on the price through a fellow member of the Boosters' Club who is sales manager ... | [
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"HE forgot Paul Riesling in an afternoon of not unagreeable details.\nAfter a return to his office, which seemed to have staggered on without\nhim, he drove a \"prospect\" out to view a four-flat tenement in the\nLinton district. He was inspired by the customer's admiration of the new\ncigar-lighter. Thrice ... |
726 | 1156_chapters_8-9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two significant events take place during the spring of 1920. First, Babbitt is able to secretly purchase several real-estate options for himself and the company executives before the Street Traction Company publicly announces its plans to extend a particular streetcar line. The deal is sure to bring in a big profit. Th... | [
"I",
"THE great events of Babbitt's spring were the secret buying of\nreal-estate options in Linton for certain street-traction officials,\nbefore the public announcement that the Linton Avenue Car Line would be\nextended, and a dinner which was, as he rejoiced to his wife, not only\n\"a regular society spread bu... |
699 | 1156_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One evening, Babbitt and his wife visit the Rieslings in their modern apartment. They spend an enjoyable few hours until Zilla begins her usual complaints about Paul, criticizing and nagging him until he becomes nasty. The Babbitts try to patch matters up, but have no success. At last, Babbitt can stand it no longer. R... | [
"No apartment-house in Zenith had more resolutely experimented in\ncondensation than the Revelstoke Arms, in which Paul and Zilla Riesling\nhad a flat. By sliding the beds into low closets the bedrooms were\nconverted into living-rooms. The kitchens were cupboards each containing\nan electric range, a copper sink, ... |
727 | 1156_chapters_11-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Babbitt and Paul spend a few hours in New York between trains. They visit the Pennsylvania Hotel, the city's newest, because Babbitt, as a realtor, is interested in seeing it. Afterward, at Paul's suggestion, they go to the docks to see an ocean liner. Babbitt is impressed by the majestic vessel and expresses a sudden ... | [
"I",
"THEY had four hours in New York between trains. The one thing Babbitt\nwished to see was the Pennsylvania Hotel, which had been built since his\nlast visit. He stared up at it, muttering, \"Twenty-two hundred rooms and\ntwenty-two hundred baths! That's got everything in the world beat. Lord,\ntheir turnover... |
728 | 1156_chapters_13-14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Babbitt, like all his business colleagues, is a member of the State Association of Real Estate Boards. The annual convention of this organization is to be held in the city of Monarch this year, and Babbitt is selected to be one of Zenith's delegates. While meeting with Cecil Rountree, the delegation chairman, Babbitt r... | [
"I",
"IT was by accident that Babbitt had his opportunity to address the S. A.\nR. E. B.",
"The S. A. R. E. B., as its members called it, with the universal\npassion for mysterious and important-sounding initials, was the State\nAssociation of Real Estate Boards; the organization of brokers and\noperators. It w... |
704 | 1156_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Although he is now a prominent citizen, Babbitt is not fully satisfied, for he has not received the social recognition that he feels he and his family deserve. He looks forward to his university class dinner since he will have an opportunity to mingle with such Zenith aristocrats as Charlie McKelvey, the millionaire co... | [
"HIS march to greatness was not without disastrous stumbling.",
"Fame did not bring the social advancement which the Babbitts deserved.\nThey were not asked to join the Tonawanda Country Club nor invited to\nthe dances at the Union. Himself, Babbitt fretted, he didn't \"care a fat\nhoot for all these highrollers,... |
729 | 1156_chapters_16-17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Babbitt is unhappy that the McKelveys and their circle have not accepted him. In reaction to this snub, he strives even harder to become an even more prominent citizen. He continues to make speeches on important issues whenever the opportunity arises, and he is active in the Elks and other organizations to which he bel... | [
"THE certainty that he was not going to be accepted by the McKelveys made\nBabbitt feel guilty and a little absurd. But he went more regularly to\nthe Elks; at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon he was oratorical regarding\nthe wickedness of strikes; and again he saw himself as a Prominent\nCitizen.",
"His clubs and ... |
707 | 1156_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Babbitt always sees his children several times each day, but aside from his concern about their expenditures, he never pays much attention to them. Now, however, Kenneth Escott's attentions to Verona arouse his interest. Babbitt also starts to worry about Ted. His son is a good athlete and mechanic and is involved in a... | [
"I",
"THOUGH he saw them twice daily, though he knew and amply discussed every\ndetail of their expenditures, yet for weeks together Babbitt was no more\nconscious of his children than of the buttons on his coat-sleeves.",
"The admiration of Kenneth Escott made him aware of Verona.",
"She had become secretary... |
730 | 1156_chapters_19-20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The real-estate deal involving options on land required by the Street Traction Company for repair shops finally comes through. Babbitt makes a profit of $3,000 and several officials of the company do equally well. About the same time, a customer complains that Stanley Graff has cheated him, and Babbitt fires the salesm... | [
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"THE Zenith Street Traction Company planned to build car-repair shops in\nthe suburb of Dorchester, but when they came to buy the land they\nfound it held, on options, by the Babbitt-Thompson Realty Company. The\npurchasing-agent, the first vice-president, and even the president of\nthe Traction Company prot... |
710 | 1156_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Babbitt is an active member of the Zenith Boosters' Club, the local chapter of a businessman's organization with thousands of branches in the United States and several foreign countries. At the second weekly club luncheon in March, the annual election of officers is held. To Babbitt's great surprise and joy, he is elec... | [
"THE International Organization of Boosters' Clubs has become a\nworld-force for optimism, manly pleasantry, and good business. Chapters\nare to be found now in thirty countries. Nine hundred and twenty of the\nthousand chapters, however, are in the United States.",
"None of these is more ardent than the Zenith B... |
731 | 1156_chapters_22-23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Babbitt is able to see Paul at the City Prison only after using his influence with Mayor Prout. He visits Riesling in his cell, and Paul antagonistically expects Babbitt to be moralistic, but Babbitt says that he wants only to help. Paul is terribly upset and expresses remorse for his crime. He hopes that Zilla will no... | [
"I",
"HE drove to the City Prison, not blindly, but with unusual fussy care at\ncorners, the fussiness of an old woman potting plants. It kept him from\nfacing the obscenity of fate.",
"The attendant said, \"Naw, you can't see any of the prisoners till\nthree-thirty--visiting-hour.\"",
"It was three. For half... |
713 | 1156_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Babbitt visits Paul at the penitentiary and sadly realizes that his friend's spirit is dead, even though there is life in his body. Babbitt also perceives that his own faith in the goodness of the world is dead. He unashamedly admits to himself that he is glad Myra is away. One day, a very chic and sophisticated woman ... | [
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"HIS visit to Paul was as unreal as his night of fog and questioning.\nUnseeing he went through prison corridors stinking of carbolic acid to\na room lined with pale yellow settees pierced in rosettes, like the\nshoe-store benches he had known as a boy. The guard led in Paul. Above\nhis uniform of linty gray... |
732 | 1156_chapters_25-26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the morning, Babbitt awakens cheerfully. He reconsiders his behavior of the past few weeks and debates whether or not to continue his "rebellion." He resolves to go on seeking, but promises himself that he will discontinue his futile chasing after girls. In August, Myra comes back to Zenith, but Babbitt has not miss... | [
"I",
"HE awoke to stretch cheerfully as he listened to the sparrows, then to\nremember that everything was wrong; that he was determined to go astray,\nand not in the least enjoying the process. Why, he wondered, should he\nbe in rebellion? What was it all about? \"Why not be sensible; stop all\nthis idiotic runn... |
733 | 1156_chapters_27-28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Late in September, a major strike takes place in Zenith. It begins with a walkout of telephone company employees, and they are soon joined by truck drivers and dairy product workers. Many other unions act in sympathy with them and, before long, the city rings with talk of a general strike. Most business and industry in... | [
"I",
"THE strike which turned Zenith into two belligerent camps; white and\nred, began late in September with a walk-out of telephone girls and\nlinemen, in protest against a reduction of wages. The newly formed union\nof dairy-products workers went out, partly in sympathy and partly\nin demand for a forty-four h... |
718 | 1156_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tanis Judique's friendship strengthens Babbitt's resolution. At the club and elsewhere, he continues to be critical of many generally accepted beliefs. Some of his friends consider him a crank, but a few, like Vergil Gunch, seem seriously concerned about Babbitt's radicalism. Babbitt soon begins to spend all his free t... | [
"I",
"THE assurance of Tanis Judique's friendship fortified Babbitt's\nself-approval. At the Athletic Club he became experimental. Though\nVergil Gunch was silent, the others at the Roughnecks' Table came to\naccept Babbitt as having, for no visible reason, \"turned crank.\" They\nargued windily with him, and he ... |
734 | 1156_chapters_30-31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Myra returns home, Babbitt tries his best to be attentive and warm. He finds it difficult, however, to restrain his impatience and irritability when he is in Myra's company. He is torn between wanting to be a good husband and also wanting to continue his relationship with Tanis and her friends. Babbitt reassesses ... | [
"I",
"THE summer before, Mrs. Babbitt's letters had crackled with desire to\nreturn to Zenith. Now they said nothing of returning, but a wistful\n\"I suppose everything is going on all right without me\" among her dry\nchronicles of weather and sicknesses hinted to Babbitt that he hadn't\nbeen very urgent about h... |
721 | 1156_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On his return home, Babbitt finds Myra waiting for him. An argument ensues, during which Babbitt boldly announces that he has been seeing another woman -- drinking and doing all sorts of forbidden things. He justifies his actions by accusing Myra and all the other respectable people around him of being unimaginative bo... | [
"I",
"HIS wife was up when he came in. \"Did you have a good time?\" she\nsniffed.",
"\"I did not. I had a rotten time! Anything else I got to explain?\"",
"\"George, how can you speak like--Oh, I don't know what's come over you!\"",
"\"Good Lord, there's nothing come over me! Why do you look for trouble\na... |
735 | 1156_chapters_33-34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One night Babbitt lies awake, bemoaning his fate. He chastises himself for having lost Tanis; he is sorry that his relationship with his wife is such a poor one. He recognizes that he and Myra have no chance for reconciliation unless he ends his rebellion against conformity, but his pride will not allow him to be bulli... | [
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"HE tried to explain to his wife, as they prepared for bed, how\nobjectionable was Sheldon Smeeth, but all her answer was, \"He has such\na beautiful voice--so spiritual. I don't think you ought to speak of him\nlike that just because you can't appreciate music!\" He saw her then as a\nstranger; he stared bl... |
736 | 1156_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On April 20 1920, dawn breaks over Zenith, a Midwestern town bustling with new skyscrapers, automobiles, and factories. George F. Babbitt, a 46-year-old real estate broker, reluctantly awakens from a recurring dream about his fairy girl, a slim maiden who fulfills his fantasies of being a "gallant, romantic youth." In ... | [
"THE towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of\nsteel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as\nsilver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and\nbeautifully office-buildings.",
"The mist took pity on the fretted structures of earlier generations: th... |
692 | 1156_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Babbitt disdains his neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Doppelbrau as "Bohemian," but he respects his neighbor Howard Littlefield, Ph.D. as a "Great Scholar." Littlefield "proves" to the businessman the "perfection" of "their system of industry and manners" with elaborate arguments grounded in "history, economics, and the confessi... | [
"To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his\nmotor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his\npirate ship but the car his perilous excursion ashore.",
"Among the tremendous crises of each day none was more dramatic than\nstarting the engine. It was slow on cold morn... |
693 | 1156_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Babbitt quibbles with Chester Kirby Laylock, the salesman for the Glen Oriole division, over the poetic value of Laylock's advertisement for the Glen. Babbitt considers Laylock disagreeably effeminate, and he likewise disdains Laylock's "poetry" because he wants something more "forceful" and "dignified." Babbitt compos... | [
"IT was a morning of artistic creation. Fifteen minutes after the purple\nprose of Babbitt's form-letter, Chester Kirby Laylock, the resident\nsalesman at Glen Oriole, came in to report a sale and submit an\nadvertisement. Babbitt disapproved of Laylock, who sang in choirs and\nwas merry at home over games of Heart... |
694 | 1156_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Babbitt prepares to meet Riesling for lunch at the Athletic Club, he admonishes himself for smoking and resolves to get more exercise. Nevertheless, he drives the three blocks to meet Riesling instead of walking. Although Zenith is undistinguishable from other Midwestern cities, Babbitt believes it is "individual an... | [
"BABBITT'S preparations for leaving the office to its feeble self during\nthe hour and a half of his lunch-period were somewhat less elaborate\nthan the plans for a general European war.",
"He fretted to Miss McGoun, \"What time you going to lunch? Well, make\nsure Miss Bannigan is in then. Explain to her that if... |
725 | 1156_chapters_6-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After lunch, Babbitt gives a client a tour of a tenement. They share their mutual worship of all things mechanical and modern. Babbitt peppers his conversation with the language of mechanics, although he hardly understands the phrases he uses. Afterward, Babbitt meets his father-in-law and business partner, Henry T. Th... | [
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"HE forgot Paul Riesling in an afternoon of not unagreeable details.\nAfter a return to his office, which seemed to have staggered on without\nhim, he drove a \"prospect\" out to view a four-flat tenement in the\nLinton district. He was inspired by the customer's admiration of the new\ncigar-lighter. Thrice ... |
737 | 1156_chapters_8-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Business is brisk that spring, so Babbitt and Myra throw a dinner party for Zenith's "keenest intellects." Babbitt visits a speakeasy to purchase gin from the surly proprietor, Healey Hanson. Everyone rejoices when Babbitt brings out the cocktails. In the warmth of alcohol, Babbitt decides his guests are wonderful frie... | [
"I",
"THE great events of Babbitt's spring were the secret buying of\nreal-estate options in Linton for certain street-traction officials,\nbefore the public announcement that the Linton Avenue Car Line would be\nextended, and a dinner which was, as he rejoiced to his wife, not only\n\"a regular society spread bu... |
702 | 1156_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Babbitt is elected as an official delegate to the annual convention for the State Association of Real Estate Boards. When Cecil Rountree, the chairman of the convention program-committee, asks Babbitt to write a paper espousing his views about real estate for the convention, Babbitt eagerly accepts the honor. However, ... | [
"I",
"IT was by accident that Babbitt had his opportunity to address the S. A.\nR. E. B.",
"The S. A. R. E. B., as its members called it, with the universal\npassion for mysterious and important-sounding initials, was the State\nAssociation of Real Estate Boards; the organization of brokers and\noperators. It w... |
738 | 1156_chapters_14-17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Warren G. Harding is elected president, but Zenith is more concerned with its own mayoral race. Seneca Doane, a lawyer running on the labor ticket, runs against Lucas Prout, a conservative manufacturer of mattresses. Babbitt earns a reputation as an orator by delivering speeches in support of Prout's candidacy. Verona ... | [
"THIS autumn a Mr. W. G. Harding, of Marion, Ohio, was appointed\nPresident of the United States, but Zenith was less interested in the\nnational campaign than in the local election. Seneca Doane, though he\nwas a lawyer and a graduate of the State University, was candidate for\nmayor of Zenith on an alarming labor... |
739 | 1156_chapters_18-20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Much to Babbitt's dismay, Ted is struggling in school. Moreover, Ted's relationship with Eunice Littlefield, a carefree girl with a deep passion for the movies, is beginning to worry him. In contrast, he happily observes the relationship between Verona and Escott in the hopes of finding signs of a budding romance. Babb... | [
"I",
"THOUGH he saw them twice daily, though he knew and amply discussed every\ndetail of their expenditures, yet for weeks together Babbitt was no more\nconscious of his children than of the buttons on his coat-sleeves.",
"The admiration of Kenneth Escott made him aware of Verona.",
"She had become secretary... |
740 | 1156_chapters_21-26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Babbitt is elected vice president of the Booster's club. When he returns to the office, gloating over his new success, Miss McGoun informs him that Myra has been calling for him. Myra informs him that Riesling has been arrested for shooting Zilla, who may not survive. Babbitt hurries to the city jail, but Riesling refu... | [
"THE International Organization of Boosters' Clubs has become a\nworld-force for optimism, manly pleasantry, and good business. Chapters\nare to be found now in thirty countries. Nine hundred and twenty of the\nthousand chapters, however, are in the United States.",
"None of these is more ardent than the Zenith B... |
741 | 1156_chapters_27-31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A series of strikes upsets the efficient commercialism of Zenith. Violence erupts as the threat of a general strike seems certain, so the National Guard steps in. Babbitt, formerly a staunch critic of labor unions, is disturbed to hear that some of the workers complain that their wages do not even pay for enough food. ... | [
"I",
"THE strike which turned Zenith into two belligerent camps; white and\nred, began late in September with a walk-out of telephone girls and\nlinemen, in protest against a reduction of wages. The newly formed union\nof dairy-products workers went out, partly in sympathy and partly\nin demand for a forty-four h... |
742 | 1156_chapter_32-34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Myra confronts Babbitt upon his return, he admits that he cheated on her. When he blames Myra for driving him away, she accepts the accusation and apologizes profusely. Later, he attends a Booster's Club meeting where a speaker rallies against immigrants. Babbitt dismisses the speech as so much bunk, incurring the... | [
"I",
"HIS wife was up when he came in. \"Did you have a good time?\" she\nsniffed.",
"\"I did not. I had a rotten time! Anything else I got to explain?\"",
"\"George, how can you speak like--Oh, I don't know what's come over you!\"",
"\"Good Lord, there's nothing come over me! Why do you look for trouble\na... |
736 | 1156_chapters_1_-_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The first chapter begins with a description of Zenith where the towers, 'aspired above the morning mist ...'. This city appears to have been built 'for giants'. There is a shift of focus to the eponymous hero, George F. Babbitt, who has been asleep on the sleeping-porch and is described as such: 'There was nothing of t... | [
"THE towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of\nsteel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as\nsilver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and\nbeautifully office-buildings.",
"The mist took pity on the fretted structures of earlier generations: th... |
743 | 1156_chapters_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter Three begins with Babbitt starting his car for his drive to work. He observes his neighbors and his disapproval for the Doppelbraus originates from his view that they are 'Bohemian'. Conversely, Howard Littlefield is revered as the 'Great Scholar' of the neighborhood. He and Babbitt also share the same Republic... | [
"To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his\nmotor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his\npirate ship but the car his perilous excursion ashore.",
"Among the tremendous crises of each day none was more dramatic than\nstarting the engine. It was slow on cold morn... |
744 | 1156_chapters_5-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Driving to lunch, Babbitt passes the 'decayed blocks' and ignores them as usual and thinks about how much money he makes. He also decides to buy himself a new cigar lighter. At lunch, at the Zenith Athletic Club, Babbitt socializes with Vergil Gunch, the president of the club, and we see Babbitt attempt to climb the so... | [
"BABBITT'S preparations for leaving the office to its feeble self during\nthe hour and a half of his lunch-period were somewhat less elaborate\nthan the plans for a general European war.",
"He fretted to Miss McGoun, \"What time you going to lunch? Well, make\nsure Miss Bannigan is in then. Explain to her that if... |
745 | 1156_chapters_8-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The 'great events' of Babbitt's spring are listed in Chapter Eight as the secret buying of real estate for 'certain street-traction officials' and a dinner at his house. This dinner is to be a 'high brow affair' and is for 12 people. As a boy from Catawba Village, he believes this shows how he has risen socially. His d... | [
"I",
"THE great events of Babbitt's spring were the secret buying of\nreal-estate options in Linton for certain street-traction officials,\nbefore the public announcement that the Linton Avenue Car Line would be\nextended, and a dinner which was, as he rejoiced to his wife, not only\n\"a regular society spread bu... |
746 | 1156_chapters_11-14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Chapter Eleven, Paul and Babbitt have to wait in New York for four hours whilst they wait for their connection to Maine. Paul explains he would like to see a liner as he has always wanted to visit Europe. When Babbitt agrees that he would like to go to 'squint' at some ruins and to order a drink whenever he wants, h... | [
"I",
"THEY had four hours in New York between trains. The one thing Babbitt\nwished to see was the Pennsylvania Hotel, which had been built since his\nlast visit. He stared up at it, muttering, \"Twenty-two hundred rooms and\ntwenty-two hundred baths! That's got everything in the world beat. Lord,\ntheir turnover... |
747 | 1156_chapters_15-18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Babbitt's desire to rise further on the social ladder is examined in Chapter Fifteen. There is to be a university class dinner and he hopes to get 'chummy' with the successful Charles McKelvey and Max Kruger. At the dinner, Babbitt is described as being 'out for social conquest', but he looks for Paul first. Babbitt si... | [
"HIS march to greatness was not without disastrous stumbling.",
"Fame did not bring the social advancement which the Babbitts deserved.\nThey were not asked to join the Tonawanda Country Club nor invited to\nthe dances at the Union. Himself, Babbitt fretted, he didn't \"care a fat\nhoot for all these highrollers,... |
748 | 1156_chapters_19-22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter Nineteen begins with details of Babbitt's involvement in unethical business practice with the Street Traction Company and with reference to his loan from Eathorne, which did not appear on the bank books. His company has also bought property that does not use their names . Babbitt expresses concern about unethic... | [
"I",
"THE Zenith Street Traction Company planned to build car-repair shops in\nthe suburb of Dorchester, but when they came to buy the land they\nfound it held, on options, by the Babbitt-Thompson Realty Company. The\npurchasing-agent, the first vice-president, and even the president of\nthe Traction Company prot... |
749 | 1156_chapters_23-26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Three marks the beginning of Babbitt's rebellion against the moral life. Myra and Tinka are away, Ted and Verona are in bed, and Babbitt is outside looking into the fog. Frink appears through the fog and is brandishing his walking stick. It is clear that he is drunk and calls himself a traitor to poetry. When he is bac... | [
"I",
"HE was busy, from March to June. He kept himself from the bewilderment\nof thinking. His wife and the neighbors were generous. Every evening he\nplayed bridge or attended the movies, and the days were blank of face\nand silent.",
"In June, Mrs. Babbitt and Tinka went East, to stay with relatives, and\nBab... |
750 | 1156_chapters_27-30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Chapter Twenty Seven, the main focus is the strike in Zenith. This has divided opinion into 'two belligerent camps'. The National Guard is called out, 'and Babbitt chose this time to be publicly liberal'. At first he is against the agitators, but then discovers the telephone girls are starving on their wages. In chu... | [
"I",
"THE strike which turned Zenith into two belligerent camps; white and\nred, began late in September with a walk-out of telephone girls and\nlinemen, in protest against a reduction of wages. The newly formed union\nof dairy-products workers went out, partly in sympathy and partly\nin demand for a forty-four h... |
751 | 1156_chapters_31-34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Chapter Thirty One, Babbitt continues to see Tanis, although he is beginning to think of her as old and decides to finish their relationship. In Chapter Thirty Two, he takes out his anger on Myra and bullies her by claiming she makes him feel old. He feels guilty momentarily, but decides again that he is going to ru... | [
"I",
"WHEN he was away from her, while he kicked about the garage and swept\nthe snow off the running-board and examined a cracked hose-connection,\nhe repented, he was alarmed and astonished that he could have flared out\nat his wife, and thought fondly how much more lasting she was than the\nflighty Bunch. He w... |
752 | 217_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Welcome to a neighborhood quaintly called "The Bottoms." It's not all that nice, and the neighborhood ends at a place known as "Hell Row." As you might imagine, that place isn't all that nice either. The neighborhood is in the Northern English village of Bestwood, which used to be a place where donkeys and their owners... | [
"THE EARLY MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS",
"\"THE BOTTOMS\" succeeded to \"Hell Row\". Hell Row was a block of thatched,\nbulging cottages that stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane. There\nlived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away.\nThe brook ran under the alder trees, scarcely soiled ... |
753 | 217_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After that first night back on the old sauce, Walter's confidence starts to shrink, along with "his pride and moral strength" . He still goes to the bar on Fridays, but doesn't come home quite so drunk. He makes his own breakfast and brings his wife a cup of tea when he's done. Mrs. Morel, though, just criticizes the t... | [
"THE BIRTH OF PAUL, AND ANOTHER BATTLE",
"AFTER such a scene as the last, Walter Morel was for some days abashed\nand ashamed, but he soon regained his old bullying indifference. Yet\nthere was a slight shrinking, a diminishing in his assurance. Physically\neven, he shrank, and his fine full presence waned. He ne... |
754 | 217_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next week, Walter's temper is worse than ever. He starts using his money to buy all kinds of gimmicky medicines and vitamins. If only he'd lived in the age of Red Bull. Right on cue, Walter Morel gets sick and needs Mrs. Morel to take care of him. The problem is, he wants her to keep doing everything for him even a... | [
"THE CASTING OFF OF MOREL--THE TAKING ON OF WILLIAM",
"DURING the next week Morel's temper was almost unbearable. Like all\nminers, he was a great lover of medicines, which, strangely enough, he\nwould often pay for himself.",
"\"You mun get me a drop o' laxy vitral,\" he said. \"It's a winder as we\ncanna ha'e... |
755 | 217_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the narrator informs us, Paul is small and built like his mother. He's pale and quiet, and seems old for his age. He hangs out with Annie a lot, who has turned into a tomboy by this point in the book. Nice. That Paul's a weird one, though. One day, Paul burns Annie's doll, and seems to take some sort of sick pleasur... | [
"THE YOUNG LIFE OF PAUL",
"PAUL would be built like his mother, slightly and rather small. His fair\nhair went reddish, and then dark brown; his eyes were grey. He was a\npale, quiet child, with eyes that seemed to listen, and with a full,\ndropping underlip.",
"As a rule he seemed old for his years. He was so ... |
756 | 217_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the years roll by, Walter Morel starts having accidents all the time. He's kind of an oaf, you see. One day, a lad in pit clothes comes to the Morels' door and says Walter has hurt his leg at work, so they've taken him away to the hospital. When she returns, she tells the family that Walter's leg is busted up pretty... | [
"PAUL LAUNCHES INTO LIFE",
"MOREL was rather a heedless man, careless of danger. So he had endless\naccidents. Now, when Mrs. Morel heard the rattle of an empty coal-cart\ncease at her entry-end, she ran into the parlour to look, expecting\nalmost to see her husband seated in the waggon, his face grey under his\n... |
757 | 217_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter opens with a description of the youngest Morel child, Arthur, who is just like his father. He always complains about work and can never wait to get back to his leisure activities. Oh yeah, and he has a terrible temper, of course. His mother often wearies Arthur with all her nagging, since he thinks only ab... | [
"DEATH IN THE FAMILY",
"ARTHUR MOREL was growing up. He was a quick, careless, impulsive boy, a\ngood deal like his father. He hated study, made a great moan if he had\nto work, and escaped as soon as possible to his sport again.",
"In appearance he remained the flower of the family, being well made,\ngraceful,... |
758 | 217_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that William's dead, Paul starts hanging out more at Willey Farm with the young Leiver boys. Miriam refuses to hang with him, though, since she believes she's a refined lady and whatnot. The narrator tells us that Miriam is like her mother, in the sense that both are very deep, "mystical" thinkers--your regular old... | [
"LAD-AND-GIRL LOVE",
"PAUL had been many times up to Willey Farm during the autumn. He\nwas friends with the two youngest boys. Edgar the eldest, would not\ncondescend at first. And Miriam also refused to be approached. She was\nafraid of being set at nought, as by her own brothers. The girl was\nromantic in her ... |
759 | 217_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Arthur Morel gets a job at an electrical plant. He doesn't drink or gamble, but always finds a way to get into fights. Paul complains about Arthur never coming home. Paul is clearly growing more irritable with age. The shining spirit of his childhood is leaving him, and this bothers Mrs. Morel. She's always looking for... | [
"STRIFE IN LOVE",
"ARTHUR finished his apprenticeship, and got a job on the electrical\nplant at Minton Pit. He earned very little, but had a good chance of\ngetting on. But he was wild and restless. He did not drink nor gamble.\nYet he somehow contrived to get into endless scrapes, always through\nsome hot-heade... |
760 | 217_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | You can guess what this chapter is about from the title. It's obviously Mrs. Morel that's doing the defeating, too. So, yeah. Paul resolves never to be with Miriam. Over time, Miriam senses his distance and starts to give up on the idea that she can sacrifice herself to Paul's love. One day, Paul does go to hang out wi... | [
"DEFEAT OF MIRIAM",
"PAUL was dissatisfied with himself and with everything. The deepest\nof his love belonged to his mother. When he felt he had hurt her, or\nwounded his love for her, he could not bear it. Now it was spring, and\nthere was battle between him and Miriam. This year he had a good deal\nagainst her... |
761 | 217_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Paul is starting to grow ambitious about his painting. The wife of his boss, Miss Jordan, takes an interest in his career and even invites him to dinners that other artists attend. One day, while he's washing up, his mother comes running in with a letter and shouting. She hugs Paul . She says that Paul's painting has w... | [
"CLARA",
"WHEN he was twenty-three years old, Paul sent in a landscape to the\nwinter exhibition at Nottingham Castle. Miss Jordan had taken a good\ndeal of interest in him, and invited him to her house, where he met\nother artists. He was beginning to grow ambitious.",
"One morning the postman came just as he ... |
762 | 217_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Like an animal in heat, the arrival of spring makes Paul realize he needs to be with Miriam. The obstacle of physical contact with her remains pretty daunting, though. For the first time, Paul seems to make a direct connection between his inability to be with Miriam and his connection to his mother. Way to go, Paul. So... | [
"THE TEST ON MIRIAM",
"WITH the spring came again the old madness and battle. Now he knew he\nwould have to go to Miriam. But what was his reluctance? He told himself\nit was only a sort of overstrong virginity in her and him which neither\ncould break through. He might have married her; but his circumstances\nat... |
763 | 217_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Over time, Paul begins to make a living off his art. It's not a great living, but there's potential for him to make more money. One day, he tells his mother he's going to become a famous painter who people talk about. We say: you follow your dreams, dude. Ever fickle, Paul doesn't waste much time before making a move o... | [
"PASSION",
"HE was gradually making it possible to earn a livelihood by his art.\nLiberty's had taken several of his painted designs on various stuffs,\nand he could sell designs for embroideries, for altar-cloths, and\nsimilar things, in one or two places. It was not very much he made\nat present, but he might e... |
764 | 217_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Paul's in a pub one night and sees Baxter Dawes, Clara's estranged husband. Paul knows from talk around town that Baxter's life is falling apart. Baxter and Paul are confirmed as enemies. There's a strange sort of intimacy between them, kind of like the way that there's intimacy between Batman and the Joker. Paul offer... | [
"BAXTER DAWES",
"SOON after Paul had been to the theatre with Clara, he was drinking\nin the Punch Bowl with some friends of his when Dawes came in. Clara's\nhusband was growing stout; his eyelids were getting slack over his brown\neyes; he was losing his healthy firmness of flesh. He was very evidently\non the d... |
765 | 217_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One night when Paul is in Sheffield, a doctor tells him that they have another patient from Nottingham named Dawes. Paul is shocked to hear the news. He decides to visit Baxter, feeling that they share a very close bond in their mutual hatred. When Paul looks at him, he realizes that they're both afraid of the men they... | [
"THE RELEASE",
"\"By the way,\" said Dr. Ansell one evening when Morel was in\nSheffield, \"we've got a man in the fever hospital here who comes from\nNottingham--Dawes. He doesn't seem to have many belongings in this\nworld.\"",
"\"Baxter Dawes!\" Paul exclaimed.",
"\"That's the man--has been a fine fellow, ... |
766 | 217_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Paul hardly sees Clara again after she goes with Dawes to Sheffield. Neither Paul nor Walter can stand the empty Morel house, so both go to live in different places. Paul can't paint after his mother's death. He can't do much of anything, really. To numb the pain, he starts drinking and knocking around the town. This i... | [
"DERELICT",
"CLARA went with her husband to Sheffield, and Paul scarcely saw her\nagain. Walter Morel seemed to have let all the trouble go over him, and\nthere he was, crawling about on the mud of it, just the same. There was\nscarcely any bond between father and son, save that each felt he must\nnot let the oth... |
752 | 217_chapter_1_the_early_married_life_of_the_morels | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The first chapter begins with a description of the neighborhood of "The Bottoms," the miners' dwellings in which the Morels live. We get a small amount of description of Mrs. Morel and learn that her husband is a miner. At this point in the story, the Morel family consists of Mr. Morel and Mrs. Morel , William , and An... | [
"THE EARLY MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS",
"\"THE BOTTOMS\" succeeded to \"Hell Row\". Hell Row was a block of thatched,\nbulging cottages that stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane. There\nlived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away.\nThe brook ran under the alder trees, scarcely soiled ... |
753 | 217_chapter_2_the_birth_of_paul,_and_another_battle | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Morel feels ashamed for bullying his wife. He also realizes her difficulties and begins to be somewhat more helpful. One morning Mrs. Morel summons her neighbor, Mrs. Kirk, by banging on the back of the fireplace with the poker, and tells her to fetch Mrs. Bower, the midwife. She gives birth to a boy and is very ill. H... | [
"THE BIRTH OF PAUL, AND ANOTHER BATTLE",
"AFTER such a scene as the last, Walter Morel was for some days abashed\nand ashamed, but he soon regained his old bullying indifference. Yet\nthere was a slight shrinking, a diminishing in his assurance. Physically\neven, he shrank, and his fine full presence waned. He ne... |
754 | 217_chapter_3_the_casting_off_of_morel_the_taking_on_of_william | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Morel begins to fall ill, despite all of his requests for medicine. His illness is attributed to the time he fell asleep on the ground when he went with Jerry to Nottingham. He falls seriously ill and his wife has to nurse him. She gets some help from the neighbors, but not every day. Eventually, Morel grows better, bu... | [
"THE CASTING OFF OF MOREL--THE TAKING ON OF WILLIAM",
"DURING the next week Morel's temper was almost unbearable. Like all\nminers, he was a great lover of medicines, which, strangely enough, he\nwould often pay for himself.",
"\"You mun get me a drop o' laxy vitral,\" he said. \"It's a winder as we\ncanna ha'e... |
755 | 217_chapter_4_the_young_life_of_paul | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter begins by describing the way that Paul, in the absence of William, bonded most closely with his sister Annie. She was a tomboy, who played games with the other neighborhood children, and Paul would quietly tag along behind her. One day, while Annie's favorite doll is lying covered up on the sofa, Paul jump... | [
"THE YOUNG LIFE OF PAUL",
"PAUL would be built like his mother, slightly and rather small. His fair\nhair went reddish, and then dark brown; his eyes were grey. He was a\npale, quiet child, with eyes that seemed to listen, and with a full,\ndropping underlip.",
"As a rule he seemed old for his years. He was so ... |
756 | 217_chapter_5_paul_launches_into_life | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Morel is injured at work when a piece of rock falls on his leg. When Mrs. Morel gets the news, she is very flustered while she is preparing to go to the hospital to see him. Paul calms her down and gives her some tea, and she leaves for the hospital. When she returns, she tells the children that their father's leg is i... | [
"PAUL LAUNCHES INTO LIFE",
"MOREL was rather a heedless man, careless of danger. So he had endless\naccidents. Now, when Mrs. Morel heard the rattle of an empty coal-cart\ncease at her entry-end, she ran into the parlour to look, expecting\nalmost to see her husband seated in the waggon, his face grey under his\n... |
757 | 217_chapter_6_death_in_the_family | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter begins with a description of Arthur, and tells how, as he grows older, he comes to detest his father. All of the children follow this same trend until they all loathe him. Arthur wins a scholarship to the school in Nottingham, and his mother decides to let him live in town with one of her sisters because o... | [
"DEATH IN THE FAMILY",
"ARTHUR MOREL was growing up. He was a quick, careless, impulsive boy, a\ngood deal like his father. He hated study, made a great moan if he had\nto work, and escaped as soon as possible to his sport again.",
"In appearance he remained the flower of the family, being well made,\ngraceful,... |
758 | 217_chapter_7_lad_girl_love | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter describes the growing intimacy between Paul and Miriam. It begins from Miriam's perspective and describes the way that she aspires to learning, since she cannot have pride in her social status. She is interested in Paul, but scorns him because he only sees the swine-girl side of her and not the princess sh... | [
"LAD-AND-GIRL LOVE",
"PAUL had been many times up to Willey Farm during the autumn. He\nwas friends with the two youngest boys. Edgar the eldest, would not\ncondescend at first. And Miriam also refused to be approached. She was\nafraid of being set at nought, as by her own brothers. The girl was\nromantic in her ... |
759 | 217_chapter_8_strife_in_love | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Arthur enlists in the army on a whim, and then writes a letter to his mother to try to get out of it. She is very upset and goes to the sergeant, but is not able to get him out of it. He does not like the discipline of the army, but he has no choice. Paul wins two first-prize awards in an exhibition for students' work ... | [
"STRIFE IN LOVE",
"ARTHUR finished his apprenticeship, and got a job on the electrical\nplant at Minton Pit. He earned very little, but had a good chance of\ngetting on. But he was wild and restless. He did not drink nor gamble.\nYet he somehow contrived to get into endless scrapes, always through\nsome hot-heade... |
760 | 217_chapter_9_defeat_of_miriam | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Paul realizes that he loves his mother more than Miriam, and Miriam seems also to realize that their relationship will never deepen. One day Paul comes to call and is unusually irritable. When Miriam begs him to tell her what is the matter, he tells her that they had better break off. She does not understand why, and h... | [
"DEFEAT OF MIRIAM",
"PAUL was dissatisfied with himself and with everything. The deepest\nof his love belonged to his mother. When he felt he had hurt her, or\nwounded his love for her, he could not bear it. Now it was spring, and\nthere was battle between him and Miriam. This year he had a good deal\nagainst her... |
761 | 217_chapter_10_clara | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Paul sends a painting to an exhibition at Nottingham Castle, and one morning Mrs. Morel gets very excited upon reading a letter. It turns out that he has won first prize and that the painting has been sold for twenty guineas to Major Moreton. Paul and his mother rejoice at his success, and he tells her that she can use... | [
"CLARA",
"WHEN he was twenty-three years old, Paul sent in a landscape to the\nwinter exhibition at Nottingham Castle. Miss Jordan had taken a good\ndeal of interest in him, and invited him to her house, where he met\nother artists. He was beginning to grow ambitious.",
"One morning the postman came just as he ... |
762 | 217_chapter_11_the_test_on_miriam | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Inspired by Clara's advice, Paul realizes that he must go back to Miriam. He reflects that the problems between the two of them may have been caused by the lack of sexuality in their relationship. He feels no aversion to her; rather, he feels that his desire for her has been overwhelmed by his stronger shyness and virg... | [
"THE TEST ON MIRIAM",
"WITH the spring came again the old madness and battle. Now he knew he\nwould have to go to Miriam. But what was his reluctance? He told himself\nit was only a sort of overstrong virginity in her and him which neither\ncould break through. He might have married her; but his circumstances\nat... |
763 | 217_chapter_12_passion | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Paul begins to spend much of his time with his mother again. They go to the Isle of Wight for a holiday, and Mrs. Morel has a bad fainting fit caused by too much walking. She recovers, but Paul still feels anxious about her condition. Paul also returns to spending a great deal of time with Clara. He tells her that he h... | [
"PASSION",
"HE was gradually making it possible to earn a livelihood by his art.\nLiberty's had taken several of his painted designs on various stuffs,\nand he could sell designs for embroideries, for altar-cloths, and\nsimilar things, in one or two places. It was not very much he made\nat present, but he might e... |
764 | 217_chapter_13_baxter_dawes | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Paul is in a bar with some friends when Baxter Dawes enters, Clara's husband from whom she has been separated for years. Paul offers him a drink, since he is the superior at Jordan's, but Dawes refuses. Dawes begins to talk about Paul being at the theatre with a 'tart,' and Paul is about to leave when Dawes says someth... | [
"BAXTER DAWES",
"SOON after Paul had been to the theatre with Clara, he was drinking\nin the Punch Bowl with some friends of his when Dawes came in. Clara's\nhusband was growing stout; his eyelids were getting slack over his brown\neyes; he was losing his healthy firmness of flesh. He was very evidently\non the d... |
765 | 217_chapter_14_the_release | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Ansell tells Paul that Baxter Dawes is in the fever hospital in Sheffield, and Paul decides to visit him. Paul tells Dawes that he can recommend him a convalescent home in Seathorpe. He tells Clara that he has been to visit Dawes in the hospital, and she becomes upset and realizes that she has treated her husband b... | [
"THE RELEASE",
"\"By the way,\" said Dr. Ansell one evening when Morel was in\nSheffield, \"we've got a man in the fever hospital here who comes from\nNottingham--Dawes. He doesn't seem to have many belongings in this\nworld.\"",
"\"Baxter Dawes!\" Paul exclaimed.",
"\"That's the man--has been a fine fellow, ... |
766 | 217_chapter_15_derelict | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clara goes back to Sheffield with her husband, and Paul is left alone with his father. There is no point in keeping their house any longer, so they each take lodgings nearby. Paul is lost without his mother. He can no longer paint, and he puts all of his energy into his work at the factory. He has debates within himsel... | [
"DERELICT",
"CLARA went with her husband to Sheffield, and Paul scarcely saw her\nagain. Walter Morel seemed to have let all the trouble go over him, and\nthere he was, crawling about on the mud of it, just the same. There was\nscarcely any bond between father and son, save that each felt he must\nnot let the oth... |
767 | 98_book_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Period The year is 1775 and the settings are London and Paris, two lands ruled by monarchs. England is on the brink of the American Revolution. The French Revolution seems inevitable, with trees waiting to be converted to guillotines and the spirit of rebellion silently infecting the countryside. Similar disturbanc... | [
"I. The Period",
"It was the best of times,\nit was the worst of times,\nit was the age of wisdom,\nit was the age of foolishness,\nit was the epoch of belief,\nit was the epoch of incredulity,\nit was the season of Light,\nit was the season of Darkness,\nit was the spring of hope,\nit was the winter of despair,\... |
768 | 98_book_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Mail Mr. Jarvis Lorry, a confidential clerk at Tellson's Bank of London, is on his way to Dover in a mail-coach. It is a cold night and he is wrapped up to the ears, so his physical appearance is concealed from his fellow-passengers, all of whom are strangers. The coachman fears his passengers just as they fear one... | [
"II. The Mail",
"It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November,\nbefore the first of the persons with whom this history has business.\nThe Dover road lay, as to him, beyond the Dover mail, as it lumbered up\nShooter's Hill. He walked up hill in the mire by the side of the mail,\nas the rest o... |
769 | 98_book_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Night Shadows The chapter opens with a reflection on the fact that all humans are mysteries to one another, despite the availability of their outer appearances. The three passengers remain a mystery to one another as they advance upon Dover. Jerry Cruncher returns to Temple Bar remaining uneasy about the cryptic me... | [
"III. The Night Shadows",
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every... |
770 | 98_book_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Preparation Mr. Lorry arrives in Dover in the mail coach, settles in, and takes his breakfast alone in the coffee-room. A conversation with a waiter establishes that Tellson's Bank operates both in London and Paris, but Mr. Lorry has not traveled to Paris for fifteen years. Mr. Lorry finishes his breakfast, strolls... | [
"IV. The Preparation",
"When the mail got successfully to Dover, in the course of the forenoon,\nthe head drawer at the Royal George Hotel opened the coach-door as his\ncustom was. He did it with some flourish of ceremony, for a mail journey\nfrom London in winter was an achievement to congratulate an adventurous... |
771 | 98_book_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Wine-Shop Outside Monsieur Defarge's wine-shop in Paris, a cask of wine is dropped and broken. The wine spills over the cobblestones, and people stop what they were doing to drink the wine off the street. When the wine runs out and people return to the activities of their daily lives, the mark of hunger is visible ... | [
"V. The Wine-shop",
"A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. The\naccident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled\nout with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just\noutside the door of the wine-shop, shattered like a walnut-shell.",
"All the peo... |
772 | 98_book_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Shoemaker Dr. Manette is absorbed in making shoes, and at first he hardly responds to the arrival of his visitors. When asked his name, Dr. Manette replies: "One Hundred and Five, North Tower. He claims to have learned shoemaking "here," illustrating that he believes he is still imprisoned. Although he only partial... | [
"VI. The Shoemaker",
"\"Good day!\" said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at the white head that\nbent low over the shoemaking.",
"It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the\nsalutation, as if it were at a distance:",
"\"Good day!\"",
"\"You are still hard at work, I see?\"",
"After... |
773 | 98_book_2,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Five Years Later The second book opens with a description of the venerable Tellson's Bank. Its darkness and discomfort are much beloved by those who work there. Indeed, their conviction that it should remain inconvenient and deteriorating is so strong that they would have disinherited a son who disagreed with them. Jer... | [
"I. Five Years Later",
"Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the\nyear one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very\ndark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place,\nmoreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the House were\nproud of its ... |
774 | 98_book_2,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Sight An old clerk at Tellson's gives Jerry Cruncher a message to deliver to Mr. Lorry at Old Bailey, where Charles Darnay is being tried. Jerry makes his way into the trial and is reassured by an onlooker that this is indeed the treason case. The man gruesomely describes the quartering that is certain to follow as p... | [
"II. A Sight",
"\"You know the Old Bailey well, no doubt?\" said one of the oldest of\nclerks to Jerry the messenger.",
"\"Ye-es, sir,\" returned Jerry, in something of a dogged manner. \"I _do_\nknow the Bailey.\"",
"\"Just so. And you know Mr. Lorry.\"",
"\"I know Mr. Lorry, sir, much better than I know t... |
775 | 98_book_2,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Disappointment Charles Darnay is charged with shuttling back and forth between France and England in order to spy. John Barsad, who was his friend, is the chief witness against him. Darnay was allegedly involved in traitorous activities as far back as five years ago, during the outbreak of the American Revolution. Mr... | [
"III. A Disappointment",
"Mr. Attorney-General had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before\nthem, though young in years, was old in the treasonable practices which\nclaimed the forfeit of his life. That this correspondence with the\npublic enemy was not a correspondence of to-day, or of yesterday, or\neven o... |
776 | 98_book_2,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Congratulatory Dr. Manette, Lucie, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor for the defense, and Mr. Stryver all congratulate Darnay on his escape from death. Dr. Manette's face is clouded over by the negative emotions caused by being cross-examined about being imprisoned. The Manettes depart in a hackney-coach, and a slightly drunk M... | [
"IV. Congratulatory",
"From the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the\nhuman stew that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when\nDoctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor\nfor the defence, and its counsel, Mr. Stryver, stood gathered round Mr.\nCh... |
777 | 98_book_2,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Jackal Mr. Stryver is prone to alcoholism, and he is a drinking companion of Mr. Carton's--they had been fellow students in Paris. Mr. Stryver, despite all of his capacity to push himself ahead, became a much more successful lawyer when Mr. Carton began working on and helping summarize his documents for him. Thus C... | [
"V. The Jackal",
"Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. So very great is\nthe improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate\nstatement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow\nin the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a\nperfect ge... |
778 | 98_book_2,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hundreds of People Four months after the trial, Mr. Lorry dines with the Manettes. The Manettes live in Soho, a charming part of London not yet fully urbanized. Dr. Manette has revived his medical practice out of the house and lives comfortably. He converses with Miss Pross, who is upset because, as she terms it, hundr... | [
"VI. Hundreds of People",
"The quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not\nfar from Soho-square. On the afternoon of a certain fine Sunday when the\nwaves of four months had rolled over the trial for treason, and carried\nit, as to the public interest and memory, far out to sea, Mr. Jarvis... |
779 | 98_book_2,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Monseigneur in Town Monseigneur is a powerful lord of France who holds receptions every two weeks in his hotel in Paris. It takes four men to muster the ceremony necessary to serve him his morning chocolate. His idea of general public business is to let things go their own way, and his idea of specific public business ... | [
"VII. Monseigneur in Town",
"Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his\nfortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. Monseigneur was in\nhis inner room, his sanctuary of sanctuaries, the Holiest of Holiests to\nthe crowd of worshippers in the suite of rooms without. Monseigneur\nwa... |
780 | 98_book_2,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Monseigneur in the Country The Marquis continues driving in his carriage through another poor village, this one made destitute by over-taxation. He stops and demands to speak with one of the villagers, asking him why he stared so intently as the Marquis drove up the hill. The man replies that there was a man under the ... | [
"VIII. Monseigneur in the Country",
"A beautiful landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not abundant.\nPatches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas\nand beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. On\ninanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a pr... |
781 | 98_book_2,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Gorgon's Head The chAC/teau is all stone, as if a Gorgon's head had looked at it. Monseigneur sits down to dinner after complaining that his nephew has not yet arrived. When Charles Darnay does arrive, Monseigneur observes that he has taken a long time coming from London. Darnay accuses Monseigneur of an effort to ... | [
"IX. The Gorgon's Head",
"It was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur the Marquis,\nwith a large stone courtyard before it, and two stone sweeps of\nstaircase meeting in a stone terrace before the principal door. A stony\nbusiness altogether, with heavy stone balustrades, and stone urns, and\nstone ... |
782 | 98_book_2,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two Promises A year later, Charles Darnay is back in England, happily working as a tutor of French. He has been in love with Lucie since he met her, and he finally asks her father for permission to make his feelings known to her. Despite Dr. Manette's hesitations, Darnay convinces him that his intentions are honorable ... | [
"X. Two Promises",
"More months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles\nDarnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French\nlanguage who was conversant with French literature. In this age, he\nwould have been a Professor; in that age, he was a Tutor. He read with\nyoung men ... |
783 | 98_book_2,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Companion Picture Mr. Stryver and Mr. Carton are drinking together while the latter prepares the former's legal papers. Mr. Stryver, after claiming that his own gallantry is superior to his friend's, announces that he intends to marry Lucie Manette. This causes Carton to drink his punch more rapidly although he claim... | [
"XI. A Companion Picture",
"\"Sydney,\" said Mr. Stryver, on that self-same night, or morning, to his\njackal; \"mix another bowl of punch; I have something to say to you.\"",
"Sydney had been working double tides that night, and the night before,\nand the night before that, and a good many nights in succession... |
784 | 98_book_2,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Fellow of Delicacy On his way to Lucie's house in Soho to declare his intentions, Mr. Stryver passes Tellson's and decides to step inside to ask Mr. Lorry's opinion of the matter. Mr. Lorry expresses some politic confusion, and Stryver asks what could possibly be wrong with his proposal. After all, he is eligible, ... | [
"XII. The Fellow of Delicacy",
"Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good\nfortune on the Doctor's daughter, resolved to make her happiness known\nto her before he left town for the Long Vacation. After some mental\ndebating of the point, he came to the conclusion that it would be a... |
785 | 98_book_2,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Fellow of No Delicacy Mr. Carton had never spoken well or made himself agreeable at the Manette household, but he used to haunt their street at night, dreaming of Lucie. One day he visits her and she asks him what the matter is. He claims that he is beyond help in his profligate ways, but he says his familiarity wi... | [
"XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy",
"If Sydney Carton ever shone anywhere, he certainly never shone in the\nhouse of Doctor Manette. He had been there often, during a whole year,\nand had always been the same moody and morose lounger there. When he\ncared to talk, he talked well; but, the cloud of caring for nothi... |
786 | 98_book_2,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Honest Tradesman Jerry Cruncher sits on his stool on Fleet Street outside Tellson's and sees Robert Cly's funeral procession approaching. A crowd belligerently follows the funeral procession because Cly was allegedly a spy, and Jerry climbs along with the mob on top of his coffin as they take over the procession. J... | [
"XIV. The Honest Tradesman",
"To the eyes of Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher, sitting on his stool in\nFleet-street with his grisly urchin beside him, a vast number and\nvariety of objects in movement were every day presented. Who could sit\nupon anything in Fleet-street during the busy hours of the day, and\nnot be dazed ... |
787 | 98_book_2,_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Knitting There is an unusual amount of early drinking in the Defarges' wine-shop, despite the fact that Monsieur Defarge is not in. Monsieur Defarge enters with a person who repairs roads and who is apparently named Jacques, whom he leads to the apartment that Doctor Manette used to occupy. Defarge introduces him to th... | [
"XV. Knitting",
"There had been earlier drinking than usual in the wine-shop of Monsieur\nDefarge. As early as six o'clock in the morning, sallow faces peeping\nthrough its barred windows had descried other faces within, bending over\nmeasures of wine. Monsieur Defarge sold a very thin wine at the best\nof times,... |
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