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The Late George Apley

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The Late George Apley	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Late George Apley is a 1937 novel by John P. Marquand.It is a satire of the insular, stultifying lifestyle of the upper class WASP Apley family of Boston. At the start of the novel George Apley (1866-1933) has recently died. His children have hired George's old school friend Horatio Willing to compose a biography of their father. Willing does so, complementing his own memories and impressions of the Boston smart set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with numerous quotations from George Apley's own journal entries and letters written and received.Willing admires George Apley uncritically and is also a social conservative who loves the stuffy, hidebound traditions that circumscribe Boston Brahmin life. But peeking in through the gaps in Willing's narrative is a portrait of a man whose sense of duty and responsibility and what he was expected to do wound up costing him his freedom and happiness.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })A case of Tom Hanks Syndrome for John Marquand, who before the publication of this novel was most famous for writing the Mr. Moto series of pulp fiction spy novels.
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The Late George Apley / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The last letter in the novel has George writing to his son John, who is coming back to Boston after several years away in New York. George says he still doesn't know John very well but looks forward to the chance to get to know him better, hoping that they'll have lots of dinners together where they can talk. Then the very last lines state that George died in December 1933 just two weeks after John got back to Boston.
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The Late George Apley / int_6a3c49f	comment	Direct Line to the Author: Framed as a memoir, with Willing quoting from George Apley's papers and correspondence.
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The Late George Apley / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Willing the narrator, managing over and over and over again to miss the point of the letters he quotes.
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