Heaven’s My Destination (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thornton Wilder
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: 1930-1931
- Setting: Middle West
- Principal Characters: George Marvin Brush, Roberta, George Burkin, Herb, Elizabeth
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Tricks, Prostitution or prostitutes, Midwest, 1930’s, Christianity, Moral conditions, Faith, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Naivete, Sales personnel
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
The Story:
George Marvin Brush, a straitlaced, clean-living nonsmoker and nondrinker of twenty-three, was a salesman for the Caulkins Educational Press; his territory was the Middle West. He was the amusement and the despair of all the traveling salesmen in the same territory who knew him. One day, Doremus Blodgett, a hosiery salesman, caught George in the act of penning a Bible text on a hotel blotter and invited George up to his room to chaff him. The righteousness of George infuriated Blodgett, but the hosiery man was almost reconciled when George admitted to him...
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