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          Alice Adams (novel)

          1921 novel by Booth Tarkington

          Alice Adams is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.[1] It was adapted as a film in 1923 by Rowland V.

          Lee[citation needed] and more famously in 1935 by George Stevens.[2] The narrative centers on the character of a young woman (the eponymous Alice Adams) who aspires to climb the social ladder and win the affections of a wealthy young man named Arthur Russell.

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          6. The story is set in a lower-middle-class household in an unnamed town in the Midwest shortly after World War I.

          Plot

          The novel begins with Virgil Adams confined to bed with an unnamed illness. There is tension between Virgil and his wife over how he should go about recovering, and she pressures him not to return to work for J.A.

          Lamb once he is well. Alice, their daughter, attempts to keep peace in the family, with mixed results, and she walks to her friend Mildred Palmer's house to see