The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

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• Duddy travels on both sides of the law in his relentless pursuit of higher social status and monetary success.
• He consistently takes his girlfriend, Yvette, for granted, despite the fact that she is the one who helps him hone his dream and forge the plan to make it a reality.
• When Simcha finds out that Duddy has achieved his dream of land ownership only via theft and manipulation, he refuses to offer Duddy the congratulations and praise that Duddy so desperately craves.

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• Duddy -- the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal -- is combative, amoral, scheming, a liar, and totally hilarious.
• Duddy’s grandfather once tells him that ‘a man without land is nobody’, Duddy takes this to heart and when he finds the property of his dreams... this becomes Duddy’s sole mission in life.
• Duddy also comes up with several, perhaps not entirely legitimate schemes, some more successful than others- but all with a certain level of ingeniousness to them.

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• ‘A man without land is nobody. Remember that, Duddel.’
• Duddy is consumed with guilt and goes into a spiral that results in his being forced to declare bankruptcy with still a few more plots of land to be purchased.
• When the final plots of land come up for sale, though, Duddy gets the fever again. He makes one last push to obtain all the land but this time it may come at the cost of his friends, his family and his soul.

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• It's a story of ambition and greed, with a hero that will stop at almost nothing.
• His ambition is to own land... 'A man without land is a nobody,' his grandfather has told him.
• The ways in which he finally succeeds in driving her away... are played against his own series of get-rich-fast schemes.