While Endzone (1972) features a narrator who is essentially an innocent confronting a complex and malevolent world, like Candide, Great Jones Street offers an all-too-knowledgable narrator who expects the worst in every context except his own life, and who is startled repeatedly by the ability of his "culture to produce familiar people in unfamiliar roles." (Of course, Bucky never loses his cool, and so never acknowledges overtly his amazement.) Some die unexpectedly, others.....
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