LOOKING FOR REAL LIFE
In the novel Grand Hotel, a working class man is confronted with the fact that he has only a short time to live. He decides that, before he succumbs, he will throw his meager savings into one last fling. He feels that before he dies, he must have at least one taste of what he thinks is real life. So he goes to a fashionable hotel in Berlin, and there he tries to give himself to the amusements and excitements of the place. But somehow it does not work out as he thought it would. One day he discusses his disillusion with another man. “What is real life?” he says to him. “I haven’t come on it as yet. I have been to the casino, and here I am sitting in the most expensive hotel, but all the time I know it isn’t the real thing. All the time I have the suspicion that real life, genuine life is going…
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