Albert Vogel was a bachelor who lived a quiet life working in his Uncle Will's store. He was very proud of the fact that years before he had loaned his friend Joe eleven dollars to go to Chicago and earn his fortune years before. Joe had become very…
In the short story “Midwestern Primitive,” Bert Statzer tries to impress others by imitating East Coast fashions and styles while her mother, Mrs. Honenschuh, a German farm wife (and widow), insists on being totally herself. Bert frets over…
In the short story “Merritsville,” Mary Redmund’s views are pooh-poohed by her painter-professor husband and his good friend, the Associate Professor of English George Sedwick who criticizes “most women” for lack of a sense of the Ideal. …
