Chapters 5 - 9 Summary

Each chapter of the summary covers four chapters of this novel. Chapter 5: this is actually named Ulrich and as such, has the shortest chapter title of the entire novel. This is a young single fellow of the early 20th century. Chapter 6: Here the young man's lover is introduced. Her name is Leona and she has a job as a singer in a cabaret. She was pretty but greedy in a way that was not evident at first. She sang sentimental, rather than risqué songs and she was lazy. Leona normally spent time with her lover in private; he would feed her and she had impressive taste actually. She knew painfully that Ulrich did not so much love her properly as it was that he was strongly affected by her physical beauty, which, however nice, is not quite the same as the...