Something for Everyone and Ashes Summary and Analysis

One day David discovers a $50 bill, packed with cocaine. David thinks he has hit the jackpot. This is when the author decides that it is possible to find money every day and not have to work. On the second day, David finds six cents. The days that follow are not any better. On the day that the only find is a peanut, David knows he must get a job.

David is finally hired by a woman named Uta who needs an apartment painted. David meets Dupont, the other worker at Uta's apartment. Dupont is a black man who acts like a subservient slave from days gone by, but it's just a front. Over the next few weeks, David likes Dupont less and less, as Dupont has bad work habits and insults David's work...