Frank Alpine

The Assistant is about Frank Alpine’s transformation from a petty thief into a compassionate, self-sacrificing and loving human being. Frank is a 25 years-old wanderer of Italian extraction, who came from San Francisco to New York in search of a new and better life. He is the protagonist in the story. His past in conveyed by a series of incoherent memories of want, guilt and failure. Everything he does seems to be an effort to …showed first 75 words of 534 total…

…showed last 75 words of 534 total…become a better person in the end, caused by living with an honest Jewish family, but he is still not a good person, and will never be one as well. Frank failed at everything he tries but his final conversion to Judaism, a religion that he despised before, represents his becoming a fully human being, one who accepts responsibility for his actions and takes on the role of provider and protector for his adopted family.