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The Assistant Study Guide

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by Bernard Malamud
About 57 pages (16,987 words)
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The Assistant is a morality drama in which human kindness and honesty, despite appearance, triumph over callousness and greed and transform lives. Morris Bober and his family live in poverty because he refuses to exploit his equally impoverished neighbors. Honesty and morality prevent the realization of the American Dream for him.....

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