Two characters in this novel quarrel about the usefulness of a correspondence course on boxing after reading an ad that asks "CAN YOU PLAY A MAN'S PART?
Two characters in this novel quarrel about the usefulness of a correspondence course on boxing after reading an ad that asks "CAN YOU PLAY A MAN'S PART?" One of this novel's chapters parallels awkward dinner parties with the McKelveys and the Overbrooks. Its main character receives a private loan from William Washington Eathorne after helping him publicize the Sunday School of Reverend John Jennison Drew. At the end of this novel, its main character declares that he has wasted his life making "a quarter of an inch out of a hundred possible rods" and encourages his son Ted to become a mechanic. Its main character has a recurring dream about a romantic "fairy child," and rebels against his peers by supporting Seneca Doane during a strike. Tanis Judique has an affair with this novel's title character, who becomes dissatisfied with his life after the incarceration of his best friend Paul Riesling. For 10 points, name this 1922 novel about a conforming real estate agent by Sinclair Lewis.  
Two characters in this novel quarrel about the usefulness of a correspondence course on boxing after reading an ad that asks "CAN YOU PLAY A MAN'S PART?
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