Question

Character sketch about Mr.Kaplan.

Answer 1

on those days Kaplan had an ambitious pompadour, kept aloft by Wildroot Cream Oil and a comb that he carried in his back pocket. In the other back pocket he kept a shoehorn. Working after school and on Monday and Thursday evenings and all day Saturday, he was, at seventeen, the ace part-time salesman at Maling Brothers Shoes on South State Street. It was at Maling Brothers that he first discovered he had this knack, ability, gift—call it what you like—for persuasion. His customers at Maling Brothers were thick-ankled Polish women and Irish girls, who worked in the Loop as secretaries, file clerks, saleswomen at Carson’s, Goldblatts, and The Fair Store. He flattered them, pretended their feet were smaller than they were, quickly sensed their susceptibilities, and usually sent them home with two or three pairs of shoes when they had come in to buy only one. “Shelly,” said Sam Margolis, the old shoe dog who managed the South State Street store, “you are a natural, a born salesman.”

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