In Jean Shepherd’s “Endless Streetcar Ride into the Night” Jean goes on a blind date that causes a change in his personality. "...lying on analysts' couches, trying to pinpoint the exact moment that they stepped off the track into the bushes forever." Jean talks about when someone steps off the path from becoming a rich and famous official, to becoming a regular nobody. On this blind date he realized which path he was on. Jean dressed up in his finest attire to attend this blind date. He thought that he was doing his friend Schwartz a favor by going on this double date. “I would do it for Schwartz. He would do as much for me.” He thought he was the catch and he hoped that his date would be attractive but he assumed she probably wasn't. As he
