McTeague

By FrankNorris, Frank Norris, F Norris

Subjects: Murderers, McTeague (Norris, Frank), Dentists, Greed, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Married people, American literature, Zamorano 80, Criminals, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Married people, fiction, McTeague (Norris), Avarice

Description: It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors' coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna's saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer.