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"Keep up with the procession... and head it if you can" is the theme of Fuller's masterpiece of social realism. The words are spoken by one of Chicago's social leaders, Mrs. Granger Bates (born the daughter of a carpenter), who heads the procession and seems proud of her material wealth. She is a triumph of characterization, a devil's advocate so unspoken and disarming that it is difficult not to believe everything she supports is for the best. And, yet within her ornate mansion is a hideaway-small, cramped, low-ceilinged, filled with the old, plain furniture, which reminds her of her girlhood. Here alone she can be herself, and comfortable