>>25210349
Are you going to say anything else? Why did you make this thread if this was all you had to offer?

does this book involves snakes?

>>25210377
Why make this comment if you have nothing to offer?

>>25210437
This anon is under cope.

>>25210434
It’s about two men who chase one another around for gold and die in the Death Valley desert. The one of them strikes the other with a rock but before he dies he handcuffs himself to the other one so the guy is unable to get out of Death Valley being too weak to walk and strapped to a dead body, he is left to die so neither of them get the gold. Snakes aren’t involved at all as far as I recall though it is set in a desert. Nice story.

>>25210439
This is a nice book. Stroheim’s Greed is a one for one adaptation of the novel

>>25210446
How hard can it possibly be to untangle yourself from a dead body, it's not going to fight back when you break it's thumb and slip the cuff off

>>25210454
If you are familiar with Geoffrey Chaucer the film/ novel is essentially an extended adaptation of the Pardoner’s Tale

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7hvzfz9eBgA&pp=ygURR3JlZWQgMTkyNCBlbmRpbmc%3D

>>25210446
so the cover is a lie

>>25210490
Yeah I guess so. You wanna talk about the book?

>>25210492
nah. came here for the snakes.

>>25210377
That's fair. In case it wasn't already obvious, I thought this book was absolutely phenomenal. It was my first real introduction to literary naturalism. The ending really moved me, and I've been wondering if Norris might be dabbling in metafiction or parody toward the close. I've also come across some analysis that pokes fun at the literary scene of 1899, especially the craze for mining stories and other Western frontier tropes, suggesting Norris could be subverting the works of Bret Harte or Jack London here.

Aside from that, I can shake how depressing this novel is sometimes. There was a scene where McTeague is discussing his future prospects after his marriage to Trina, Marcus' niece, and he talks about how he would grow old in a six bedroom home, and his children's children would be raised in the same house.

>>25210745
>and he talks about how he would grow old in a six bedroom home, and his children's children would be raised in the same house.
Haha, imagine being this greedy.

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>>25210454