Looking for Mr. Green (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The Depression
- Setting: Chicago
- Principal Characters: George Grebe, Mr. Raynor, Mrs. Staika, Winston Field
- Genres: Short fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Depression, economic, Inner cities or inner-city life, Reality, Disabilities or physically challenged persons
- Locales: Chicago, IL
The Story
“Looking for Mr. Green” recounts the efforts of George Grebe to deliver relief checks to handicapped residents of the South Side of Chicago. Grebe, thirty-five and an instructor of classical languages, has been reduced by the hard times of the Depression to taking a series of trivial, part-time jobs until an old schoolmate secures for him a position at the relief office. Grebe's desire to do well at his new job is hampered by its peculiar difficulty: “He could find the streets and numbers, but the clients were not where they were supposed to be.” Grebe is...
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