A Thousand Clowns | Characters
Albert Amundson
Albert Amundson is a social case worker with the New York Bureau of Child Welfare, sent to investigate Murray’s fitness as a guardian for Nick. Albert is a stuffy, no-nonsense man. He takes his job seriously and wants to do it well, but he has no affinity for children and makes no attempt to talk with Nick when he visits the apartment with his partner, Sandra Markowitz. In fact, he suggests repeatedly that Murray send Nick away while they discuss the ‘‘case.’’ He is not impressed by Nick’s ability to identify where Albert has lived by listening to...
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