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The Big Money Summary & Study Guide Description
The Big Money Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
This detailed literature summary also contains Critical Essays on The Big Money by John Dos Passos.
The Big Money Plot Summary
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The structure of The Big Money is not divided into traditional numbered or thematically named chapters. In the table of contents, each chapter in the novel is identified by the character whose point of view directs the chapter and comprises a "Newsreel," a "The Camera Eye," and/or a narrative section. The newsreel and camera eye sections emphasize the novel's most important thematic ideas.
Chapter 1: Charley Anderson
Lieutenant Charley Anderson, war ace, returns to America on a ship from France. He looks forward to being home.
In "Newsreel XLIV," the repetition of the lyric "Yankee doodle" juxtaposed against capitalized headlines such as "DEADLOCK UNBROKEN AS FIGHT SPREADS" as well as against a journalistic piece about "democratic rights" being trampled shows the crumbling of America from within.
Chapter 2: Charley Anderson
Charley finds a room at a hotel, then gets a drink with his friend Ollie Taylor. At a dinner party, Charley enjoys the company of...
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