Duddy Kravitz - Successful manipulator? ("The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" by Mordecai Richler)
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 00:23:22
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 4 pages (1001 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 4 pages (1001 words)
Throughout the novel, Duddy proves himself as a very smart guy, who has the ability to overcome any obstacles he faces. Bur he is not only good in handling situations, but he is also very skillful in betraying and manipulating people around him. It is unfortunate, that he decides to manipulate the people who truly liked him, Yvette, Cuckoo Kaplan, and Virgil, since these manipulations lead him to the final failure.
Duddy Kravitz starts his …
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…like Cohen and Dingleman). But what does he achieve by exploiting these people? In the end he has no friends, he loses Simcha's respect, he does not have money to make use of his land, and he can't even afford a bus fare. He has nowhere to go with this kind of experience in working with people. He reaches a dead-end in both, his career, and his personal life: Duddy becomes a nobody with land.
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