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2. Bernard Malamud
Born: April 26, 1914
Brooklyn, New York
Died March 18, 1986 (aged 71)
Manhattan, New York
Occupation Author
Nationality United States
Genres novel, short story
3. Quote by Bernard
Malamud
"Without heroes we
would all be plain
people and wouldn't
know how far we can
go."
4. A Summer’s Reading
First Published: 1956
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century
Setting: New York City : The Bronx
Characters: George Stoyonovich, Sophie
Stoyonovich, His father,
Mr. Cattanzara
Genres: Short fiction
6. George Stoyonovich
A nineteen-year-old high-school dropout living
aimlessly in the working-class neighborhood in
Brooklyn. He "considered registering in a night
high school" but "he did not like the idea of the
teachers always telling him what to do. He felt
they had not respected him."
7. Sophie Stoyonovich
George's elder sister, a "tall bony girl of twenty-
three" who works at a cafeteria in the Bronx.
She has to take care of the house because their
mother was dead. She sometimes reads "good
books."
8. Mr. Cattanzara
A "stocky, bald-headed man who works in a
change booth on a [subway] station," living on
the next block to George's. He reads the New
York Times "from the first page to the last"; in
short, he is the "intellectual" of the
neighborhood. Sometimes he drinks too much.
9. What is in a name?
George Stoyonovich – suggests he is from a
Yugoslavian immigrant family whereas Mr
Cattanzara’ name suggests he is from an Italian
Immigrant family.
Some people suggest that these names mean:
Cattanzara meaning "chained"
Stoyonovich meaning "stay put“
(I could not find any proof of this but it does make a good story)
14. Watchwords
the Bronx section of New York City
railroad flat apartment near railway
ball game base ball
world almanac mini encyclopedia
News and Mirror working class
newspaper
dough money
drifted wandered slowly
64. Watchwords
change booth a place where you get change
(right amount of money to pay
for the train)
New York Times serious newspaper read by
educated people
squirt small thin boy
shoot the breeze discuss something
nickel 5 cent
buck dollar
2 bits 25 cents
111. Watchwords
beating it home running home
pick him up make him feel better
came abreast of came next to
(alongside)
shove push
passable reasonable
crumbling apart falling apart
railed at shouted at
182. Chronology of Events
• Nearly four years ago, George Stoyonovich had quit high
school "on an impulse" when he was sixteen.
• "This summer" [the beginning of the story] is a hard time
for jobs and George, now "close to twenty", has none.
Having no money to spend, he stays off the streets and
spends most of the day in his room. Sophie urges him to
read some "worthwhile books" but he is in no mood for
them: "Lately he couldn't stand made-up stories, they got
on his nerves."
• One evening, while on his walk, George meets Mr.
Cattanzara coming home very late from work. George tells
him that he is reading one hundred great books in the
library list. He wants Mr. Cattanzara to respect him.
183. • "After that", George does nothing different from usual
but he finds the people in the neighborhood start
calling him "a good boy." He feels himself being
respected because of the books he is not reading.
• "As the summer went on George felt in a good mood
about things." He occasionally buys paperback books
but he never gets around to reading them. Yet, "he
could could feel approval on all sides." "For a few
weeks" he talks only once with Mr. Cattanzara, who
says nothing about the books. George decides to stay
away from "the change maker."
184. • Then one night" George sees Mr. Cattanzara, a little
drunk, walking toward him. He hands a nickel to
George, saying "Go buy yourself a lemon ice, George,"
as he used to do when George was a "squirt." Asked to
name one book on the list he has read so far, George
cannot answer. After saying, "George, don't do what I
did," Mr. Cattanzara leaves.
• "The next night" George is afraid to leave his room.
Sophie finds out that his brother is not reading a single
book on the list and calls him a "bum."
185. • "One night," after staying in his room "for almost
a week" George sneaks to the park unable to
stand the heat. Unexpectedly, he finds people still
friendly to him. A man on a street corner asks
him if it is true that "he had finished reading so
many books."
• "After a couple of days," George sees Mr.
Cattanzara again. He feels that Mr. Cattanzara
"had started the rumor that he had finished all
the books."
186. • "One evening in the fall," George runs to the
library and "though he was struggling to
control an inward trembling, he easily counted
off a hundred, then sat down at a table to
read."
• http://www2.dokkyo.ac.jp/~esemi006/malamud/art/st_magic_barrel.htm#asr
