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well by doing good") was a
villain of the deepest dye.
If
today the dope peddler can
be successfully portrayed as a
champion of the needy, we have
come a distance, too, in our
view of the drug addict him–
self. Who can say exactly when
the Dope Fiend, in the public's
view, began to turn into the
Junkie? The process has been
gradual as ice thawing. Certain–
ly Nelson Algren's
The Man
With the Golden Arm
did much
to promote the metamorphosis,
when in 1949 it won a National
Book Award and an interna–
tional reputation. In a novel
otherwise populated with quaint
malapropists, the gambler Fran–
kie Machine is a credible figure,
at once more authentic and
more vital than the book which
contains him. The decline and
fall of this sha:bby, brutal man,
impaled on twin disasters of
guilt and morphine, is an event
of genuine pathos. Undoubtedly
Algren's book, and the slick,
gruesome movie to which it led,
served better than a score of
magazine articles to show the
drug addict as not quite the
urban werewolf our parents
made him out t6 be.
Regardless of when he got
here, the Junkie is here now,
"if
"recent literature is any guide.
