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| Plot Summary of The Magic Christian |
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"Guy Grand, 53, is an eccentric multibillionaire who spends roughly $10 million a year playing practical jokes on society. These range from the small and silly (having a large man mash crackers with a sledge hammer in Times Square, offering a man $6,000 to eat a parking ticket, releasing a ravenous panther at a prestigious dog show) to the massive (sparking racial and religious riots in Chicago, hunting in the Congo with a 75mm howitzer, building and selling 100-foot convertible autos, filling a giant concrete vat with offal and 10,000 hundred-dollar-bills, and inviting people to go swimming for cash) -- his stated purpose being to "make it hot for them." His greatest prank is the maiden voyage of the S.S. Magic Christian, a luxury liner filled with wealthy guests, freaks and performers, and an actor who pretends to be a drunken captain. Southern's 1960 farce is dated and not terribly funny."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- humorous
Time/era of story
- 1930's-1950's
Life of a profession:
- "the rich"
Job/Profession/Status story
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- wealthy
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- society
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
Intelligence
- Dumb
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 2 ()
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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