Chapter 4: Lucky Jim

Chapter 4.

Well, interesting novel so far. So basically, Amis brings the characters together in the university at this faculty meeting to demonstrate and emphasize different qualities that the professors possess. I must say it's pretty witty how Amis does this because all of the characters, from Margeret to Dixon, dress, speak, and think differently...which emphasizes the different social barriers created by their society and their flaws. There are obviously major differences between Dixon and Welch because Dixon can neither read sheet music or discuss welfare in a manner tough enough to win an argument between the professors. Because of this, the reader sees the flaws in judging the intelligence strictly on social class because indeed Dixon still remains favorable to the reader because he is the one who is able to analyze everything going on around him. The wit is set up here in the way in which Amis presents members of different social classes and emphasizes different character flaws and materialistic desires.