According to Eusebio Rodrigues, one character in this work is based on "Yellow Kid" Weil and Wilhelm Reich. The protagonist thinks that a man wearing a hat has an advantage before talking to Rubin in the lobby of the Hotel Gloriana. That protagonist decided to leave college to go to Hollywood on the advice of the pimp Maurice Venice, and becomes inconvenienced by Mr. Rappaport. In this novel's final pages, the main character is spurned by his father, Dr. Adler, and begins sobbing uncontrollably 
According to Eusebio Rodrigues, one character in this work is based on "Yellow Kid" Weil and Wilhelm Reich. The protagonist thinks that a man wearing a hat has an advantage before talking to Rubin in the lobby of the Hotel Gloriana. That protagonist decided to leave college to go to Hollywood on the advice of the pimp Maurice Venice, and becomes inconvenienced by Mr. Rappaport. In this novel's final pages, the main character is spurned by his father, Dr. Adler, and begins sobbing uncontrollably during the funeral of a stranger. This follows the disappearance of Dr. Tamkin, who had taken the last seven hundred dollars of Tommy Wilhelm by appealing to the "Here-and-Now." FTP, identify this Saul Bellow novel named for a quotation from Horace.
According to Eusebio Rodrigues, one character in this work is based on "Yellow Kid" Weil and Wilhelm Reich.
{Seize the Day}