Introduction to the novel "Grand Hotel"

"Grand Hotel" is a 1965 work by Arthur Haley. It describes the story of a luxurious hotel in New Orleans in the southern United States, which was forced to sell due to owner Warren Trent's old-fashioned ways, poor management, and failure to keep up with the development of the times. As a result, he was heavily in debt. Through the description of this hotel, it reflects the various shortcomings and chronic diseases of American capitalist society: hotel giants prey on the weak, detectives extort, hotel employees embezzle and steal, blacks are racially discriminated against, the upper-class nobles are despicable, and dandy children are corrupt and degenerate. , the rich business girl is spiritually empty, the hotel thief is greedy... all of this can be said to be a microcosm of the decadent American capitalist society. Like his other works, Arthur Haley also created several lovely characters in this novel. For example, the protagonist Peter McDermott in the novel, in Haley's writing, is a young, powerful, business-savvy, enterprising, and visionary manager. In addition, the author gave in-depth descriptions of the serious and responsible sous chef Andre Lemire and the loyal garbage worker Booker Graham, which left a deep impression on people. In addition, the author introduces a lot of professional knowledge about modern hotel management in the novel combined with the storyline, which is worthy of reading by the majority of tourism and hotel staff.

Among the novelists who were famous in the European and American literary circles for writing popular works in the second half of the last century, Arthur Haley is indeed a very outstanding one. He was born in the United Kingdom, but his nationality is Canadian, and he has lived in the United States for a long time as an adult; he has worked as a civil servant, a Royal Air Force pilot, a real estate broker, a business magazine editor, and an advertising manager. These rich life experiences give his works a wide range of themes and unique styles.

Arthur Haley's works are all based on American society, and each one tells a story that happened within an industry to show a certain fragment of American social life at that time.

Since most of the scenes in Arthur Haley's works are set in a relatively fixed and open place, the characters involved come from all over the world. For example, in this book, there are hotel employees and hotel residents. Customers include people who come for a temporary meeting, private detectives, and even thieves. These characters seem complex and unrelated to each other, but they fit together very naturally. There is not much ink about many people, but they are often able to portray them vividly and vividly on the page. The main characters in the book, some are noble and wise, some are brave and strong, some have strong selfish desires, or some are confused. Each one of them is shaped by the use of line drawing to make it feel like seeing the person and hearing the voice, making people close up after reading. memorable.

About the author

Arthur Haley (1920-2004) was born in England and joined the Royal Air Force in World War II. After writing about various aspects of American society, he died in the Bahamas, but I would rather admit that I am Canadian. His novels were adapted into movies, leading the trend of disaster films in Hollywood; his novels were adapted into TV series, creating the highest ratings record in history. His novels have been selected into MBA textbooks and become must-read books for practitioners; his novels have been selected into English textbooks and are classic examples for learning writing. He is the father of best-selling books. His works have been translated into 38 languages ??and have sold a total of 1.7 billion copies. He is weaving stories all the time, but can only create 600 words a day. He is the king of novels in the industry. People learn about airport operations, hotel management, media operations, and financial insider information from his novels, but he modestly said: “I am just a storyteller, and other gains for readers are just accidental.

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