Bonfire of the Vanities
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The first six chapters of Tom WolfeÆs (1990) Bonfire of the Vanities provides the cast of characters and contrasting settings of Park Avenue and the South Bronx whose tensions will boil over when protagonist Sherman McCoy and his mistress hit a black man with their car. These chapters provide the background and lifestyle of characters like McCoy, ôa Yale man,ö who believes he deserves the opulent life of luxury his million dollar a year Wall Street job provides him (Wolfe, 1990, p. 11). We are also introduced to his wife, his mistress, a manipulative African American leader, and other characters. We discover there are two distinct worlds in New York; one for the haves and one for the have-nots. In these chapters Wolfe sets up his characters as largely unappealing, self-interested people, whether they exist on Park Avenue or in the South Bronx.I felt Wolfe did an excellent job in these chapters of conveying the contrasting worlds of Park Avenue and the South Bronx, two worlds whose underlying tensions will collide in the person of Sherman McCoy. He also makes his characters in this section appear one way, when in the end we will perceive them differently. For example, Judy seems ôbitchyö and Maria ôharmless,ö but we come to learn Judy is merely dissatisfied with a life she didnÆt expect and Maria is dangerous. WolfeÆs (1990) first six chapters of Bonfire of the Vanities depicts
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