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Playing Out a Tale of Greed
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19921025
Author:Wynne Delacoma
`McTeague' symposium 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday Civic Theatre, 20 N. Wacker
Admission, $29 (312) 332-2244
When "McTeague," Frank Norris' novel about life in San Francisco's slums was published in 1899, it was denounced as a unnecessarily brutish look at the city's unseemly underside.
Others saw it as a flawed but notable attempt at naturalistic fiction, one that refused to sugarcoat life's harsh realities.
The story centers on McTeague, a slow-witted, self-taught dentist who falls in love with pretty young Trina Sieppe, the cousin of his best friend, Marcus Schouler. ...
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