 There, still preoccupied with Sammy Glick's rise to stardom, he investigates Sammy's past.He comes to understand, at least to some degree, "the machinery that turns out Sammy Glicks" and "the anarchy of the poor".Manheim realizes that Sammy grew up in the "dog-eat-dog world" of New York's Lower East Side (Rivington Street), much like the more sophisticated dog-eat-dog world of Hollywood.