I Look Out for Ed Wolfe (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanley Elkin
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The early 1960's
- Setting: Urban America
- Principal Characters: Ed Wolfe, La Meck, Oliver, Mary Roberta
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Freedom, Self, Guilt, Spiritual life or spirituality, Isolation, Employees, dismissal
- Locales: United States
The Story
Ed Wolfe is a loan officer whose aggressiveness in collecting bills for Cornucopia Finance Company (“Can you cope?” is Wolfe's sardonic rechristening) verges on the maniacal. On the day the story opens, he is fired for doing his job too well: His zeal has transformed into a practice of vicious harassment of delinquent clients, and he is accused by his boss, La Meck, of having degenerated into a gangster. As the story's title suggests, Ed Wolfe is exclusively self-absorbed, a champion of detachment and a heartlessly efficient operator.
Receiving his...
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