The Down Fall Of Duddy Kravitz A man must pursue his dreams. This is certainly true for all of humankind, for if there were no dreams, there would be no reason to live. Duddy Kravitz understands this perfectly because that is what gave him the ambition to succeed. From the moment he hears his grandfather say "A man without land is nobody." (Richler 46) he is prepared to seek the land of his dreams, no matter …showed first 75 words of 992 total…

…showed last 75 words of 992 total…him to succeed in society, but chooses to dishonestly achieve what he worked for. Duddy chooses the wrong path at a young age and continues on that path to his adulthood. He succeeded his goal, but ended loosing more in lost love then he will ever realize in money. Therefore, throughout Duddy's life, with hard work and immoral decisions, he became a somebody as he dreamed but a failure to the rest of his society.