Theo+Second+Wall

“When, in short, you were ‘Ragged Dick.’ You must drop that name, and think of yourself now as--” “Richard Hunter. Esq.,” said our hero, smiling. “A young gentleman on the way to fame and fortune,” added Fosdick. (Alger, 185)

“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.” (Fitzgerald, 161)

Edward Mitchell Bannister "Newspaper Boy" 1869 oil on canvas 30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. (76.6 x 63.7 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Connection JUMP OVER THE WALL