... 271) Bernard was very adventurous as a boy, he enjoyed skating, climbing trees, and playing running games. In time he got to know many people all over the neighborhood. Being that Brooklyn had relatively no Jews, Malamud sometimes found it difficult to fit in. Bernard has jokingly quoted as saying he was "discovered at Erasmus Hall High School," where my compositions received high ... Bureau in Washington, D.C. He has written a few short stories in college, and after graduation he began to write again in his spare time. Malamud stated that "The rise of totalitarianism, the Second World ...

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... vs. Materialism In Bernard Malamud's story "The First Seven Years", there is a reoccurring theme of materialism vs. humanism. Feld the shoemaker and Max represent materialism, while the daughter Miriam and the assistant Sobel represent humanism. In the beginning of the story we learn that Feld is trying to match his daughter up with a young gentleman named Max. The father is not interested in whether the gentleman has a good ... personality, but more in how successful the man is going to be ... for a pay raise. In Malamud's short story, we see a clear distinction between humanism vs. ma...

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