Nov 12, 2009

I Look Out for Ed Wolfe | I Look Out for Ed Wolfe

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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I Look Out for Ed Wolfe | I Look Out for Ed Wolfe

At a glance:

The Story

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