![]() ![]() The quiet town is now a sooty, sprawling city whose industrial section has encroached upon the once-exclusive neighborhoods. George and a grief-stricken Isabel take an extended trip abroad, returning only when she is seriously ill, whereupon they discover their beloved community to be irreparably changed. After his father’s death, his mother’s interest in Eugene so compromises George’s sense of position and privilege that he deliberately destroys their relationship and, in the process, his own with Lucy. A self-made man, Eugene represents changes in the social order that George cannot accept. George’s one redeeming quality is his love for Lucy Morgan, but his contempt for Lucy’s widowed father, Eugene, an increasingly successful automobile manufacturer, complicates their attraction. The young man is arrogant and overbearing, a product of his mother’s overindulgence and his family’s social prominence. ![]() Of his three children, only his daughter, Isabel, produces an heir, George. ![]() ![]() Old Major Amberson makes a fortune in land speculation after the Civil War and settles back to enjoy his position as the arbiter of style and the chief wielder of political power in his small community. In The Magnificent Ambersons, Tarkington faithfully records the decline of an old, aristocratic family as industrialization changes the social and economic character of a small midwestern town. ![]()
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