Excerpt from Guide to Films in Human RelationsAlice Adams' ambition to rise socially causes constant friction between her father and mother. Alice is about to enter a secretarial school to improve her family's finances when she meets, at the entrance to the school, the young man with whom she had been friendly at the ball (shown in dance She lies to him, telling him that she has come to the school to hire a secretary for her father. The young man accompanies her to her home, but Alice is ashamed to invite him in because the house is upset. She arranges to have him come at another time, but he fails to keep the appointment. A few days later, when the house is again in disorder, he appears on the scene. Her mother eavesdrops on the conversation, and, on hearing her daughter' 5 attempts to conceal the truth about the family 5 social position, berates her husband in a loud voice which both Alice and the young man can hear. Alice and her friend part with no indication of a future meeting.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.