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The Octopus Frank Norris Analysis

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In The Octopus Frank Norris writes of the clash between the California wheat growers and the monopolistic corruption of the expanding railroad. Six months before Judge Roy Bean’s death at age 78 after a drinking binge, came Norris’s death, not by drink but unexpected appendicitis at age 32. Based on the Mussel Slough affair, The Octopus is concerned with the destructive and underhanded ways of both parties, the farmers and the railroad, as they each seek to undermine the other in a dishonest property exchange. The rivalry ended in a fatal shootout, where both sides, as well as the peacekeepers themselves, lost lives. Having left Chicago as a youth to study painting in Paris, Norris went on to attend Berkeley before moving to San Francisco and …show more content…

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