Blog Assignemt 3

Blog Assignemt 3
Nice Work by David Lodge
The main characters of the novel Nice Work by David are Vic Wilcox and Robyn Penrose. This novel deals with a professional meeting of two characters with ideas, thoughts completely opposite. Robyn Penrose is teaching English literature at the Rummidge University and Victor Wilcox is a managing director in an engineering company (Pringle). Vic Wilcox is a rather negative person, he doesn´t like things that happens around him. He doesn´t like his wife very much after 30 years of marriage, his lazy and spoiled children’s and other people who live on others money. The book became more interesting to read when Vic and Robyn finally met through the project “Industry Year Shadow Scheme”. One purpose with this project was to bring the academic world closer to the industrial world. Robyn was going to follow – shadow - Vic in his daily work once a week.One day women called Robyn shows up at the factory. She will be a shadow to Vic due to that the government has decided that this year should be the industrial year. Robyn will follow Vic in his daily work. Robyn is a feminist, independent and clever woman. She is determinate and she says what she thinks. However these two kinds of personalities complement each other with their different opinions and skills. They learned a lot from each other through their discussions and started to understand each other. In the business world I think you need a combination of both these two. Throughout the novel, we can see that these two main characters are completely opposed but they will have to make efforts in order to work together. I think the book was good; it was interesting with these two totally different characters and I enjoyed their discussions and the influence they made at each other. I can really recommend this book, just don’t give up after the first chapter – it will be better!