Sailor Off the Bremen (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Irwin Shaw
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1930's
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Ernest, Sally, Charley, Lueger, Preminger
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Politics, Art or artists, Good and evil, Nazism or Nazis, Fascism
- Locales: New York, NY
The Story
Ernest, an artist, is beaten and disfigured (losing an eye and his front teeth) when he participates in a communist demonstration aboard the ocean liner Bremen. As the story opens, his friends and family gather in his kitchen to hear Preminger, a communist deck officer aboard the Bremen (and a witness to the incident), explain what happened. Ernest's brother, Charley, a college football player, decides to take revenge on Lueger, the German steward who beat Ernest. Ernest, however, despite his injuries, remains committed to the communist ideal and objects...
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