Read Chapters 20-25
Content Summary for Teachers
Chapters 20-21
Sherman, once regarded as the shining star of Pierce & Pierce, finds himself summoned to his boss Gene Lopwitz's office. Lopwitz, an Anglophile with a penchant for British culture, has gone to great lengths to install a working fireplace on the fiftieth floor of their modern Wall Street office building. Unfortunately, this endeavor has led to a rather painful situation: insects hitched a ride on the imported logs, and Sherman's firm, the head of which is Lopwitz, suffered the consequences.
As the meeting commences, the rotund opera singer Bobby Shafflett, to whom Gene lent his private jet, calls, causing a delay in the...
