Alice Adams

The story

In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?

• #dinner party
• #business idea
• #awkward situation
• #business start-up
• #inventor
• #dinner guest
• #ambitious wife
• #young love
• #poor pretending to be rich
• #socially awkward
• #gambling debt
• #nagging wife