In the canon
The Pit
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1903
- Pages
- Pages 400
Stand on La Salle Street at the right hour and you can hear it: a low roar coming up out of the Board of Trade, the sound of men howling wheat into existence and out of it again. Frank Norris makes that noise the second character of his novel, and the first is Laura Dearborn, who marries a speculator and discovers that her rival is not another woman but a grain.
The wheat cornered itself. I simply stood between two sets of circumstances. The wheat cornered me, not I the wheat.
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