Dalyrimple Goes Wrong TITLE OF SOURCE: AUTHOR'S NAME - FIRST: LAST: DESCRIPTION: Visual Text Half unconsciously he turned a page--he caught sight of his name --it was a salary list:<br><br>Dalyrimple Demming Donahoe Everett<br><br>His eyes stopped--<br><br>Everett.........................$60<br><br>So Tom Everett, Macy's weak-chinned nephew, had started at sixty --and in three weeks he had been out of the packing-room and into the office.<br><br>So that was it! He was to sit and see man after man pushed over him: sons, cousins, sons of friends, irrespective of their capabilities, while HE was cast for a pawn, with "going on the road" dangled before his eyes--put off with the stock remark: "I'll see; I'll look into it." At forty, perhaps, he would be a bookkeeper like old Hesse, tired, listless Hesse with a dull routine for his stint and a dull background of boarding-house conversation.<br><br>This was a moment when a genii should have pressed into his hand the book for disillusioned young men. But the book has not been written.<br><br>A great protest swelling into revolt surged up in him. Ideas half forgotten, chaoticly perceived and assimilated, filled his mind. Get on--that was the rule of life--and that was all. How he did it, didn't matter COMMENTS: Visual Text We root for Dalyrimple as he tries to better himself, and then wince when he begins to "go wrong." A morally-ambiguous cautionary tale, with a charismatic central character. Plenty of character and plot for a short one-act...but you'd have to invent a second half to make it into a full-length. (Although you might consider Act Two is about Dalyrimple's great-grandson, and run the same story beats, giving us to hold out hope that the great-grandson won't "go wrong"?) CANDIDATE FOR ADAPTATION?: --- not set --- Not reviewed Promising Unlikely SOURCE MATERIAL: Fable Novella Play Plot summary Short Story -- Parent -- GENRE: Comedy Comic Horror Detective Drama Fable Fairy Tale Fantasy Folklore Folktale Ghost Story Melodrama Mystery Myth Operetta Other Romance Suspense Young Audiences -- Parent -- SETTING: Africa America England Europe Fantasy International New Zealand Pastoral Rural Rustic Science Fiction -- Parent -- LENGTH FOR ADAPTATION: 10 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes Two Hours -- Parent -- URL FOR PDF DOCUMENT: DalyrimpleGoesWrong.pdf
