The Assistant | Setting
Bober's grocery, where most of the action takes place, is in a section of the city (possibly Brooklyn though never specified) that is almost a slum. The story occurs in a two-year span during which nothing happens to improve the lot of the Bobers except slight increases in business after Frank Alpine, the assistant the title refers to, allies himself with the family and becomes a clerk in Bober's store. A bleak grayness characterizes the atmosphere of the book. The grocery is a prison in which Bober spends his exemplary life and to which Frank Alpine will later commit himself. Bober's sense...
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