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This 3 page paper examines Saul Bellow’s short story “Looking for Mr. Green” through the lens of Georg Simmel’s sociological essay “The Metropolis and Mental Life,” and argues that because the residents of the city have been rendered blasé by the life they live there, Mr. Grebe’s mission to find Mr. Green is doomed before it starts. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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become part of what Georg Simmel calls "the blas?." This paper uses Simmels essay "The Metropolis and Mental Life" as a springboard to examine Bellows story, and argues that because
of the stress imposed by the city, the attempt to find Mr. Green was doomed before it began. Discussion The story, as noted, is simple: its the Depression, one of
the worst times in American history, with as many as one-third of all Americans out of work. George Grebe, a well-educated, decent, and dedicated young man, has finally found work
delivering welfare checks to black recipients on Chicagos South Side (Bellow, 2002). Even the job isnt really his; he got it only because an old school acquaintance arranged it for
him (Bellow, 2002). Still, he wants to make a success of it "simply for doing-wells sake" (Bellow, 2002, p. 175). As he stands in the relief office he wonders "why
people should be so hard to locate who were too feeble or sick to come to the station to collect their own checks" (Bellow, 2002, p. 175). But Raynor, his
supervisor, warns him they could be hard to find, and suggests that if he cant locate the person he start by asking the postman, then the stores and trades people,
then the neighbors (Bellow, 2002). "But youll find the closer you come to your man, the less people will tell you. They dont want to tell you anything." "Because Im
a stranger." "Because youre white" (Bellow, 2002, p. 175). Bellow has already told the reader that Grebe is doing to have a tough time; now we know why. The story
takes on a sort of Kafkaesque quality, as Grebe roams all over the black neighborhoods looking for Mr. Green, but not being able to find him. He asks everyone he
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