Simcha, the family patriarch, believes in Duddy but in a quiet way, too quietly to outweigh the loud negativity espoused by Duddy’s uncle Benjy, a successful business owner who thinks Duddy is just greedy and crass.ĭuddy manages to establish a little support team to assist him in his professional goals. Lennie cares for Duddy and would like to be more of a role model, but Lennie is too busy desperately trying to please his father and society in general.
Max believes that Duddy is a dunce like him and that all the family’s hopes lie with Duddy’s older brother, Lennie. He is undervalued by his father, Max, a taxi driver who earns extra money as a pimp. Like an old-world explorer, Duddy creates a map of his dream property, which he envisions as a campsite for Jewish kids, and gradually works on acquiring each individual parcel of land.ĭuddy’s family supports and derides him. It isn’t until he takes a demeaning job waiting tables in an upscale countryside hotel that Duddy finds the land that he’s determined to make his own. As he grows up in the city, this plan seems far-fetched. From his Polish immigrant grandfather, Simcha, Duddy’s been taught that a man is nothing if he doesn’t own land.
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