![]() But there is a long history between George's mother and Lucy's father, of which George is unaware. Growing up arrogant, sure of his own worth and position, and totally oblivious to the lives of others, George falls in love with Lucy Morgan, a young though sensible debutante. Young George Amberson Minafer, the patriarch's grandson, is spoiled terribly by his mother Isabel. The Amberson family is the most prosperous and powerful in town at the turn of the century. The decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons and other new-money families, who derived power not from family names but by "doing things." As George Amberson's friend (name unspecified) says, "don't you think being things is 'rahthuh bettuh' than doing things?" ![]() This novel and trilogy trace the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in an upper-scale Indianapolis neighborhood, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America. ![]() This is the second novel in Tarkington's Growth trilogy, which includes The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923 retitled National Avenue in 1927). ![]() This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |