Main Character
Joe Flom: Big time lawyer at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom. Slightly overweight, large head, short slightly hunched. He is the last remaining member of the previously named men in the company. Comes from a Jewish family from Brooklyn.
Setting
New York 1930’s- present
Author/NArrator
Malcolm Gladwell
3 lessons
1.The Importance of Being Jewish
2.Demographic Luck
3.The Garment Industry and Meaningful Work
2.Demographic Luck
3.The Garment Industry and Meaningful Work
Theme
“Brilliant Immigrant kid overcomes poverty and the Depression, can’t get a job at the stuffy downtown law firms, makes it on his own through sheer hustle and ability. Its a true rags to riches story” (Gladwell 119)
*also see Important Ideas and Themes
*also see Important Ideas and Themes
Type Of work
Novel
Genre
Non-Fiction
point of view
Narrator speaks in Omniscient view