Sinclair Lewis

Name: The Job : Man and Woman — Chapter 20
Author: Sinclair Lewis

The Job : Man and Woman — Chapter 20 (1917)

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“The Job : Man and Woman — Chapter 20”, published in 1917, is a work by Sinclair Lewis. It explores elements such as Una, Joline and Boutell.

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Sinclair Lewis, The Job : Man and Woman — Chapter 20 (1917)

“ She earned them, too; but she declined to be interested in office regulations or office hours. She sold suburban homes as a free lance, and only to the very best people. She darted into the office now and then, slender, tall, shoulder-swinging, an exclamation-point of a girl, in a smart, check suit and a Bendel hat. She ignored Una with a coolness which reduced her to the status of a new stenographer. All the office watched Miss Joline with hypnotized envy. Always in offices those who have social position outside are observed with secret awe by those who have not. ”

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Sinclair Lewis, The Job : Man and Woman — Chapter 20 (1917)

“ That was loyalty to Truax & Fein as much as desire for advancement.
And that same loyalty made her accept as fellow-workers even the noisiest of the salesmen—and even Beatrice Joline.
Though Mr. Truax didn’t “believe in” women salesmen, one woman briskly overrode his beliefs: Miss Beatrice Joline, of the Gramercy Park Jolines, who cheerfully called herself “one of the nouveau pauvre,” and condescended to mere Upper West Side millionaires, and had to earn her frocks and tea money. ”

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Sinclair Lewis, The Job : Man and Woman — Chapter 20 (1917)

“ While he was dictating to Una, Mr. Truax monologized: “I don’t see why we can’t sell that Boutell family a lot. We wouldn’t make any profit out of it, now, anyway—that’s nearly eaten up by the overhead we’ve wasted on them. But I hate to give them up, and your friend Mr. Fein says that we aren’t scientific salesmen if we give up the office problems that everybody takes a whack at and seems to fail on.”
More and more Mr. Truax had been recognizing Una as an intelligence, and often he teased her regarding her admiration for Mr. Fein’s efficiency. ”

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Sinclair Lewis, The Job : Man and Woman — Chapter 20 (1917)

“ Man lands a job, works his head off getting it, gets an advance for some new clothes he’s simply got to have, and of course everybody else congratulates him—everybody but his own wife. She sniffs at him—not a word about the new job, of course. ”

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Sinclair Lewis, The Job : Man and Woman — Chapter 20 (1917)

“ They did go to tea. But before it, while Miss Joline was being voluble with Mr. Truax, Una methodically made notes on the art of dress and filed them for future reference. Despite the fact that, with the support of Mr. Schwirtz as her chief luxury, she had only sixteen dollars in the world, she had faith that she would sometime take a woman’s delight in dress, and a business woman’s interest in it.... This had been an important hour for her, though it cannot be authoritatively stated which was the more important—learning to dress, or learning not to be in awe of a Joline of Gramercy Park. ”

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Sinclair Lewis, The Job : Man and Woman — Chapter 20 (1917)

“ Even in this day when people like my friend Mamie Magen think that feminism has won everything, I suppose there must still be a majority of men like you—men who’ve never even heard of feminism, who think that their women are breed cattle. ”

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Sinclair Lewis, The Job : Man and Woman — Chapter 20 (1917)

“ You’ll sit around all day in a hotel and take it easy and have plenty time to figger out all the things you can roast me for, and then spring them on me the minute I get back from a trip all tired out. ”

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Sinclair Lewis, The Job : Man and Woman — Chapter 20 (1917)

“ I stood you as long as it was my job to do it. God! what jobs we women have in this chivalrous world that honors women so much!—but now that you can take care of yourself, I’ll do the same.”
“What d’ yuh mean?”
“I mean this.”
She darted at the bed, yanked from beneath it her suit-case, and into it began to throw her toilet articles.
Mr. Schwirtz sat upon the bed and laughed enormously.
“You women cer’nly are a sketch!” he caroled. “Going back to mamma, are you? Sure! That’s what the first Mrs. Schwirtz was always doing. Let’s see. ”

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