영어로 읽는 고전 _ 싱클레어 루이스의 더 잡_어느 미국소설
싱클레어 루이스의 “더 잡: 어느 미국 소설”은 1900년대 초에 출간된 소설이다. 이 작품은 교육과 직업의 기회를 좇아 펜실베이니아의 소도시를 떠나 뉴욕으로 향하는 젊은 여성 우나 골든을 따라간다. 경제적 어려움으로 일터에 나서야 했던 우나는 남성이 지배하는 상업용 부동산 업계에 발을 들이며, 회사 최초의 여성 부동산 중개인이 된다. 이 소설은 직업적 야망과 연애·결혼에 대한 기대 사이에서 균형을 잡으려는 그녀의 분투를 그리며, 그 시대 여성으로서는 파격적이었던 선택들을 헤쳐 나가는 과정을 좇는다.
Classics Read in English _ The Job: An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis
Published in the early 1900s, Sinclair Lewis's The Job: An American Novel follows Una Golden, a young woman who leaves her small Pennsylvania town for New York in pursuit of education and a career. When financial hardship pushes her into the workforce, Una enters the male-dominated world of commercial real estate and becomes the first woman realtor at her firm. The novel charts her effort to balance professional ambition against the expectations of romance and marriage, as she navigates choices considered scandalous for a woman of her era.
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CAPTAIN LEW GOLDEN would have saved any foreign observer a great deal of trouble in studying America. He was an almost perfect type of the petty small-town middle-class lawyer. He lived in Panama, Pennsylvania. He had never been “captain” of anything except the Crescent Volunteer Fire Company, but he owned the title because he collected rents, wrote insurance, and meddled with lawsuits.
He carried a quite visible mustache-comb and wore a collar, but no tie. On warm days he appeared on the street in his shirt-sleeves, and discussed the comparative temperatures of the past thirty years with Doctor Smith and the Mansion House ’bus-driver.
