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331What changes Duddy the most is his sense of morality He does not care about the feelings of others even if it will hurt them in the long run This is shown when Duddy asked Virgil to drive the truck since he has no one else to hire knowing that Virgil is not allowed to drive and soon after Virgil is crippled for life Duddy will do anything to gain more money even if it is at the expense of others Duddy will keep on going and will not stop his longing for wealth until he is completely satisfied Duddy s ambition and purpose throughout the novel is to have land His number one priority is to gain money so he can have land A man without land is nothing is what Simcha says and because of this Duddy takes his words literally What the quote really means is to always strive for freedom As the story progress Duddy shows that his number one priority is to gain money and have lots of land His materialistic need to gather as many items as he can makes him become delusional to the reality set in front of him He becomes so engulfed to the idea that he needs everything to become satisfied creates him to become a ruthless consumer Duddy is starting to become a man with no self consciousness and will do whatever it takes even at the expense of others to gain the land he always dreams of Lastly Duddy believes that the more land he owns the more powerful and influential he can be because of Simcha s quote His problem is that he takes things too literally which is one of his biggest flaws Because of Simcha s quote Richler makes Duddy a materialistic person content only until he has lots of land Throughout Duddy Kravitz s life he faces discrimination from anti Semitist and this is one of the biggest themes in
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz As he adapts to the discrimination of anti Semites he changes not to be a better person but to become bolder and ruthless as he achieves his goals Duddy is born not just from being a Jew but also add on to him growing on the relatively poor side of Montreal in St Urbain Street Living poor and as a Jew Duddy had to learn his lessons on the streets facing life in a different perspective than Sy 3 many others in his age Duddy learns how to earn success on his own but at the cost of making religion not even relevant As Duddy grows older he keeps his guard up and becomes an opportunist afraid to be tricked by anti Semites This changes Duddy mentally and the way he looks at others In a world where Duddy has no guidance he develops his own values and ideas that can either be moral or immoral The themes presented throughout Mordecai Richler s The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz novel all change and effect Duddy Kravitz s personality and mindset Greed engulfs Duddy to become a morbid person disconnecting him from reality and all of his relationships The materialistic need for everything such as land and matter has made Duddy lost in what truly matters His number one priority is to gain land and accumulate everything he can gain He is willing to achieve the land at the expense of others Lastly the anti Semitism that revolve around Duddy s life changes his mental state and what he values He learns to adapt by becoming ruthless to prove he can become someone great Duddy achieves all of his goals at the end of the novel but at the cost of his moral self and everyone he loves