By giving McTeague animal instincts, Frank Norris shows how Social Darwinism worked. Due to the animalistic features that McTeague …show more content…
While reading the book, one could see from Norris’s examples which characters were a success or failure. Frank Norris captured the idea of Social Darwinism through his characters McTeague and Zirkow. In summary, the book McTeague represents Social Darwinism in action as McTeague and Zirkow’s ethnicity caused them to be in a lower