Title: The Adventures of Augie March Author: Saul Bellow Published: New York: The Viking Press, 1953 I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.  But a man’s character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn’t any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.[1] And that my friends is how Bellow begins The Adventures of Augie March.  It truly is an American story.  One that captures the hopes, dreams, and disappointments that many may experience.  The characters are alive and believable.  There is a little bit of Augie in each of us I believe.  We want to do our own thing and make the best of life, but very often we are carried along by the current.  It is almost as if the inevitable has a way of grabbing us by the coattails and dragging us along.  The experiences and encounters that Augie experience are very wide in what…