An Exemplum

Part I of Essay
The Immigrant and the Car Salesman There was once a boy named Petros who immigrated to the United States from Greece. His family was very poor, so they came on a ship, and took a train to Chicago, where they thought they could find work. When Petros turned eighteen, he dec ....

Part II of Essay
.... over the produce store, he put on his old hat and decided to go back to the Cadillac dealership. When he arrived at the dealership, a new salesman came out to help him. Petros asked him the price of one of the new models in the showroom. The salesman looked at the old man, with his foreign accent, and wearing his old, beat-up hat, and told him that it was very expensive and that he would show him a different one that was much more affordable. Petros told him that he still wanted it. The salesman insisted that the car was much too expens ....