Literary Debt
A Walk on the Wild Side reworks material from Algren's first novel Somebody in Boots, which was published in 1935. It also recycles material from Algren's short stories, particularly "The Face on the Barroom Floor", which was published in American Mercury in 1947. The protagonist of the short story, Fancy, is a bartender employed by a Chicago speakeasy. A woman-pleaser like Dove Linkhorn, Fancy is meted out much the same fate as Dove at the hands of a similar antagonist.
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