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Who is Samson-Aaron Feder from Marjorie Morningstar and what is their importance? Marjorie_Morningstar_(novel) English & Literature Samson-Aaron Feder | Marjorie Morningstar

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Uncle to Marjorie, Samson-Aaron is a grossly overweight, rather crude individual, who is an embarrassment to the Morgenstern family, but certainly the life of any social occasion. He attends Seth's Bar Mitzva and succeeds in becoming quite drunk and using his gross table manners in the presence of Marjorie's current flame's family, the Goldstones. When Marjorie insists upon going to South Wind for the summer, her mother arranges for Uncle Samson to obtain a position as a dishwasher in the kitchen, in order that he may keep an eye on Marjorie. He is enlisted to play the toreador in a Spanish entertainment event, and dies later that evening from a heart attack. His death results in Marjorie leaving South Wind, just as she has agreed to surrender her virginity to Noel.