The financial tragedy for Duddy is soon righted when Irwin returns the money and the high-rollers assuage their guilt by taking up a collection. Irwin owns the roulette wheel, knows it’s quirks and soon has Duddy cleaned out. Irwin and Linda, the owner’s daughter, scheme to teach Duddy a lesson by getting him to bankroll a gambling night with some of the high-rollers vacationing at Rubin’s. The other boys, lead by Irwin Schubert, begin to dislike Duddy because he is tireless in his pursuit of money and also because Duddy emerges as the best waiter in the place. Most of the other boys are pre-med and the chasm between the classes is evident. Remember that, Duddel.'” – After two generations of failure in Canada, the zeyda has high hopes for Duddy.ĭuddy goes to work as a waiter at Rubin’s Hotel Lac des Sables in Ste Agathe des Monts in the Laurentian mountains. His zeyda (grandfather) hands Duddy just about the only pearl of wisdom he has gained in the new country. Duddy feels the slightest twinge of guilt but needs to get on with his life. MacPherson, at Fletcher’s Field High School until “Mac” starts drinking, loses his sickly wife and has to quit. The family are Jewish Anglophones living in Montreal. He doesn’t remember his mother and he and his brother, Lennie, have been raised by their cab-driving father, Max.
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