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... is one of the novel’s central symbols. In chapter 7, Laura, the wife of the market titan, Curtis Jadwin, allows Corthell, an artist, to play her husband’s mammoth mechanical organ for her. Laura is xed, all...

... clique of ‘‘Bears’’ declares its intention of going after Curtis Jadwin, the ‘‘Big Bull’’ in the wheat 816 American Literature market, one of the clique members cries: ‘‘Oh, Jadwin, hey? Hi! we’re after big game now 22 It is indeed tempting to imagine Brydon and his alter ego’s agonistic clash...

...—but not until The Pit , the second book in the uncompleted trilogy. The Pit follows the speculator Curtis Jadwin as he attempts to corner the wheat market, a common enough occurrence in Chicago between the invention of wheat “futures” in the mid-nineteenth century and the writing of The Pit...