Falling between The Turmoil and The Midlander in the Growth trilogy, this work centers on George Minafer, the only heir of the Major's fortune in the title family.
One group described in this work hires "a few palms in green tubs" and gathers to dance the "racquette" and "Portland Fancy" at parties, and they embroider daisies which they term "marguerites". When his daughter asks for a dog, one character in this work declares that he would rather choke himself to death than pay a servant to strangle it, in contrast to another family that paid 50 to 100 dollars for a St. Bernard. That character is the father of Fanny, Old Aleck. The protagonist verbally assaults Reverend Malloch Smith, which the reverend attributes to his mother's spoiling him, a fact ignored by the town automobile inventor, Eugene Morgan, who loves (*) Isabel. Falling between The Turmoil and The Midlander in the Growth trilogy, this work centers on George Minafer, the only heir of the Major's fortune in the title family. For 10 points, name this 1918 American work centering on three generations of the title aristocratic family, a novel by Booth Tarkington.
One group described in this work hires "a few palms in green tubs" and gathers to dance the "racquette" and "Portland Fancy" at parties, and they embroider daisies which they term "marguerites".
The Magnificent Ambersons