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authority to that type of singularization. Second, that particular technique accentuates the difference between the Street Scene-Grand Hotel build-up and Holiday's, the parallel and the integral. In illustrating that difference let us glance back at Street Scene.
The daughter's potentially illicit romance with her employer, a married man, although chilled by consciousness of her mother's affair with the bill collector, did not in any way directly further or hinder that affair. Neither did the blonde on the all-night date, the woman whose man had been lured away by a husbandstealing siren, nor the budding romance between the student and the daughter, nor the baby being born legitimately on the third floor, nor the neighbor's disapprobation of such goings on. Those secondary pursuits of course accentuated cheating and its apprehension as furthered by the mother and father, in effect retarding and advancing those pursuits, but in the main they merely paralleled, kept the main pursuits alive. The same thing obtained with Grand Hotel.
Pursuits in Grand Hotel were many. There was Kringelein, the old bookkeeper, crowding all the hi-deho possible into the few remaining days of his life. An aging ballet dancer needing someone to fill the void left by a public who no longer wranted her ; that someone a bogus baron she found thefting her jewels, who upon being discovered was forced to make love to her to escape the gendarmes.
There was a public stenographer who was supposed to be nice to the men from whom she took dictation, in particular an industrialist whose expectations were quite obvious but at no time did any of those pursuits tie in with Kringelein's, either aiding or hindering, provoking or inducing any great amount of sympathy for him.
Kringelein's ex-employer, the industrialist, took a minimum of joy out of the old fellow's happiness in their momentary brush over who was to dance with the stenographer. The thieving baron who stole Kringelein's wallet at the poker game gave the old fellow a few harried moments before the wallet was "found", but that was all.
Paralleling Kringelein's fear of life's lowering curtain the secondary pursuits broadly accentuated his
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