McTeague: A Story of San Francisco Summary
Frank Norris

CHAPTER 1 It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors’ coffee-joint on Polk Street.  He had a thick gray ... Read more

The best work of Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (1870-1902), American novelist and critic, achieves a raw force that has won him an important place in the history of American fiction.Frank Norris was b... Read more

Although he died less than five years after publishing his first novel, Frank Norris stands as one of the key figures of early twentieth-century American literature. In novels such as McTeague: A Stor... Read more

Frank Norris has been viewed as a significant literary critic in one major way. His principal and quite specific image for most has been that of a spokesman for the literary movement which first devel... Read more

In the following essay, Michaels draws on characters from McTeague and Vandover and the Brute to examine the portrayal of miserly behavior in Norris's naturalistic fiction. Democracy is thre... Read more

In the following essay, McFatter argues that in McTeague Norris intended to create a parody of the medieval romance genre. More than one Norris critic has commented on the obtrusive craftsmanship o... Read more

Greed is defined as the intense and selfish desire for food wealth, or power. In the prose of McTeague, the narrator holds a sarcastic tone towards McTeague, who is described as one whose desire for ... Read more