Homer Starts to Work

Duration: 11

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: In this excerpt from The Human Comedy, Homer gets an after-school job delivering telegrams in order to help support his widowed mother. As he gets to know his fellow workers and his customers, Homer observes that there is sadness in each of them. He decides that understanding people is part of growing up, and comments that working makes going to school seem silly.

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