Chapter 4 The Communist Party Summary and Analysis

Chambers makes his contact with the Party and meets a man at the public library. The man agrees to take him to a meeting. The man's name is Sam Kreiger; but he is known as Clarence Miller in the Party. Kreiger takes Chambers to his first meeting and introduces him to the people there. He is not too impressed at the first meeting, although he is being considered by the cell for membership. Kreiger and his wife, who have a Party marriage, teach Chambers about the Party. There are two different factions, he discovers, that are constantly competing and fighting with one another. Krieger proposes Chambers for membership after several meetings. Chambers joins, using his own name, and volunteers to work for the New York office of the Daily Worker. He is assigned to doing...