Aunt Gladys and Uncle Mr and Mrs Patimkin Brenda Neil Ron Max Aunt Gladys Mr Patimkin Inverted White clothes Symbol of Mr Patimkin Business ‘He ain’t got and Uncle about Ron: syntax is a white, to Neil after the stomach acumen Max live in in sign of Protestant he translates for linked to ‘Four years business’ the Newark college he Jewishness. America that the word (75) Jewishness, and Who else is, in the a way of ‘ghetto’ can’t unload ‘Gonif’: ‘You the Patimkins a speaks with know more saying Neil is truck.’ (74) Patimkin’s live in inverted than my own more eyes ‘the Shorthills syntax in the endpoint of assimilated kids’. (75) book, and than Ron. assimilation’ (Alba) who doesn’t? you Neil ‘Here Brenda’s had need a little her nose compares the of the gonif in fixed bump in Mr (75) you…’ Patimkin’s nose to a diamond. Mrs Patimkin to Neil about Brenda: ‘She was the best Hebrew student I’d ever seen… but then, of course, she got too big for her britches.’ (71)
Aunt Gladys and Uncle Max Mr and Mrs Patimkin Brenda Neil Ron Aunt Gladys and Uncle Max live in the Newark ‘ghetto’ and the Patimkins live in Shorthills Mr Patimkin about Ron: ‘Four years in college he can’t unload a truck.’ (74) Inverted syntax is a sign of Jewishness. Who else speaks with inverted syntax in the book, and who doesn’t? White clothes Symbol of white, Protestant America that is, in the Patimkin’s eyes ‘the endpoint of assimilation’ (Alba) Mr Patimkin to Neil after he translates the word ‘Gonif’: ‘You know more than my own kids’. (75) ‘He ain’t got the stomach for business’ (75) Business acumen linked to Jewishness, a way of saying Neil is more assimilated than Ron. ‘Here you need a little of the gonif in you…’ (75) Brenda’s had her nose fixed Neil compares the bump in Mr Patimkin’s nose to a diamond. Mrs Patimkin to Neil about Brenda: ‘She was the best Hebrew student I’d ever seen… but then, of course, she got too big for her britches.’ (71)
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