Alice Adams

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?

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