Word: buddenbrooks
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...Johann Buddenbrook. The son of the founder of the firm. "A kind papa, a worthy man." A German of the old 18th Century school who "never in all his life has worn a pair of trousers." Able in business, he has raised the Buddenbrooks to their important position. What if he is a rough diamond, who sometimes forgets himself and relapses into low German dialect before the fine guests...
...Johonn Buddenbrook, the Younger. The son of old Johann. More refined than Johann, he is just as able. His only trouble is that he believes God is personally supervising all the decisions he makes. A belief which sometimes leads him to attach undue importance to them...
...Thomas Buddenbrook. The son of the younger Johann. Even if he has a scornful way of lifting one of his eyebrows and a fondness for quoting Heine, he too is able at business. True, it is under his management that the family comes to grief. But that is because being a Buddenbrook now involves responsibilities that are too much...