His first wife insists on him obtaining season tickets to the races for their entire family to establish social standing, and she attends with Bart Taylor, while he prefers to spend time viewing the performance of "Under the Gaslight" at Avery Hall.
At one point, this character plays euchre with his object of affection and holds back his good cards so that she wins, after which he suggests they play for dimes and, when she says that gambling is bad, he tells her not to moralize until she sees who wins. His first wife insists on him obtaining season tickets to the races for their entire family to establish social standing, and she attends with Bart Taylor, while he prefers to spend time viewing the performance of "Under the Gaslight" at Avery Hall. He's followed to Canada by a private investigator hired by Fitzgerald and Moy, to whom he eventually pays 9,500 dollars. He and his second wife initially live across the hall from Mr. and Mrs. Vance, but money problems force them to move into an apartment in a different part of town. He'd been introduced to that wife by Charles Drouet, her former husband. FTP, name this man who falls from saloon manager to homeless in New York City in Sister Carrie.
At one point, this character plays euchre with his object of affection and holds back his good cards so that she wins, after which he suggests they play for dimes and, when she says that gambling is bad, he tells her not to moralize until she sees who wins.
George {Hurstwood} (accept George or Hurstwood)