Norris was neither as prolific nor as successful a writer as his brother Frank. While Frank Norris's novels remain popular in college classrooms, Bread is only beginning to enjoy a rediscovery. Though they have not yet gained critical attention, Norris's other novels are also interested in the effects of social forces on the individual. In Salt, Norris narrates the education of his protagonist, Griffith Adams. Unfortunately, school and college does little to prepare Adams for the real education forced upon him in the real world. Like Jeannette, Adams must struggle to make sense of a business world that seems reluctant to slow its motors to let an individual catch up. Now more or less ignored by scholars and casual readers, Salt was extremely popular in its day. F. Scott Fitzgerald regarded it extremely highly, predicting with characteristic bombast that it and his own The Great Gatsby...