Among the Dangs (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: George P. Elliott
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Plot: Parody
- Time of Work: 1937 to after World War II
- Setting: The United States and the eastern foothills of the Andes
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Dr. Sorish, Redadu, Velma
- Genres: Short fiction, Parody
- Subjects: Values, Rites or ceremonies, Anthropology or anthropologists, Satire
- Locales: Andes, United States
The Story
The narrator, the story's central character and only developed personality, is an Everyman with needs to satisfy. His quest depicts the relative capacity of two different societies to fulfill his needs and to bring him to full humanity. On graduation from Sansom, he requires a job and will take what he can get, no matter how unpromising it seems. When the doing brings him to a greater truth than he had aimed at and through a path of apparent improbabilities, the result is nothing short of miracle or comedy in the Dantean sense, but it is tinged finally by his...
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