about the life of a young man named Duddy Kravitz growing up on

Montreal's St. Urbain street. The novel chronicles his life from when he was

a troublesome school boy up until he was a young man of nineteen

desperately trying to make something of himself and own his very own piece

of land. Along the way to becoming a success Duddy has to stomp on a few

toes, and screw over some good friends, and in the end he is left with all the

land and money that he ever wanted, but no friends at all. In short Duddy

Kravitz is the typical jackass. In his novel Richler describes various

instances when Duddy is not loyal or nice to his close friends and is only

interested in making money. In short Richler makes the point that in order to

be successful you cannot play by the rules. You have to stomp on a few toes

and you may lose a few friends along the way.

Firstly Richler shows us in his novel how Duddy's character developed

from a young age. The book starts out with Duddy as a fifteen year old

attending high school. At the beginning of the book we find Duddy in a

bitter conflict with a teacher at the school, Mr. M

friends but he made it which seems to be all that matters.

Duddy. We find that the young Duddy is a bit of a trouble maker, and we

home. I'm going by bus." Duddy started for his father, but the waiter got in

pocket. He persuades Virgil to cough up the one thousand dollars to buy a

hard nosed attitude would result in Duddy becoming very successful in

this dialogue: -"I know you're responsible for the drawing on the board and I

use and manipulate everyone who dares be near to him. Duddy Kravitz the

Duddy meets Virgil and finds out that he has one thousand dollars in his

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Approximate Word count = 846
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)