Publishing Obstacles Pre-Self-publishing Epoch - “Fame’s First Wooing”
George is an up-and-coming writer who bumps into constraining complications in the quest to publish his pioneer novel. Thomas Wolfe illuminates, “All the time he was abroad it had nauseated him to think of his manuscript, of the years of work and sleepless nights, he had put into it, and of the high hopes that bad sustained him through it; and he had tried, not to think of it, convinced now that it was no good, that he himself was no good, and that all his hot ambitions and his dreams of fame were the vapourings of a shoddy aesthete without talent.” George sacrifices time-wise during the composition of the book. The initial publisher’s dismissal embodies the tests that fresh writers come across in the effort to be published. The publishers can be obstructing intermediaries in the publication of writers’ works. However, if self-publishing were operable, George would have not frazzled himself hunting for publishers because he would have straightforwardly self-published the book by way of assorted online podiums.
Human Flaws - “The Drunken Beggar on a Horseback”
The dynamics prevailing in George and Esther’s illegitimate liaison reflect inborn human flaws: “And that was where Esther came in, for he had really not meant to come back to her. His head had told him it was better to let their affair end as it had ended. But no sooner had he arrived in New York than his heart told him to call her up — and he had done it. Then they had met again, and after that things followed their own course.” George is a slave of his affection for Esther although she is wedded. He submits to the attraction because his Eros overthrows him. Their reunification infers that human beings have intrinsic imperfections that make them susceptible to repeating blunders or to being “The Drunken Beggars on Horsebacks.” In other scenarios, particularly those encompassing Eros, the conscience is not operative in admonishing individuals’ decadence.
