THE HACK DRIVER

SINCLAIR LEWIS

KEYPOINTS

•The character of the young lawyer.•His nature of job & working environment.•His likes & dislikes.•The place he visited and work assigned.

SUMMARY

• This story is about a young lawyer who is too innocent. He goes to a village to serve summon to a person called Lutkins.

• At the railway station he meets a person who identifies himself as Bill. Bill appears to know everyone in the village and promises to search Lutkins for the lawyer.

• He takes the lawyer for a ride and dupes him off lots of money. But after a six hour long search, they do not find Lutkins.

• Next day, when the lawyer goes to the village with one of his colleagues, he discovers that it was Lutkins who posed as Bill on the previous day.

• Everyone, except the lawyer have a hearty laugh at the predicament of the lawyer.

SUMMARY

• In this lesson, a young lawyer is made to serve summons instead of practicing law.

• He hates his job as sometimes he is beaten up. Once he is directed by the law firm to serve summons to one Mr. Oliver Lutkins, who lived in a village called New Mullion.

•The young laywer goes to the village with some expectations of village life but he is disappointed.

•He meets a hack driver who is a very helpful man according to him.