The first assignment his editor suggests is to write a story about anti-semitism. Initially Green can't find an angle for it, but soon hits upon one that could be very promising - for a short period of time, he will pretend to be a Jew (saying that his name is short for Greenberg, for example), and then chronicling the reactions he gets from his new co-workers, new social acquaintances, and the people who manage country clubs and restaurants.