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Section 1: "American Express" pages 25-35

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Salter, James. "American Express." Dusk and Other Stories. Modern Library, 2011. Paperback.

• The story opens with the admission that "It's hard now to think of all the places and nights" (25).

• The story's setting in the New York of the mid-twentieth century is established as a few of these "places" are listed, and then the narrator summarizes: "Unknown brilliant faces jammed at the bar. The dark, dramatic eye that blazes for a moment and disappears" (25).

• The story's main characters are two young attorneys, Alan and Frank, just beginning their careers in New York.

• Franks's father is a successful New York lawyer, but Alan is from Cleveland--where his father practices law in a way that has earned him a certain notoriety, as he is "well known, if not detested" (25).

• The narrator recounts an...

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