Katey looks to her as an example of how to dress and behave, in order to move up in society. The novel includes many references to the melting pot that is Manhattan, and how immigrants retain their heritage while attempting to embrace all America has to offer.Īnne Grandyn is Tinker's wealthy and sophisticated godmother. Katey is a secretary at Quiggin & Hale, a law firm, but soon she realizes that the job is a dead end and a disservice to the dreams her father had when he had left Russia for America. Tinker moves Eve into his luxury apartment, feeling obligated to take care of her. Tinker seems attracted to Katey, but then the three are in a car accident that seriously injures Eve. Katey and her friend, Eve Ross, meet Tinker on New Year's Eve in 1937, and the three develop a friendship. The other image, taken in 1939, features Tinker in threadbare clothing but with a hint of a smile. One image, taken in 1938, features Tinker in cashmere but not necessarily happy. All of the images had been taken in the late 1930s and early 1940s on New York subways, with a hidden camera. Katey sees two images of Tinker at an art exhibit.
Tinker had been important to her in 1938. Katey Kontent narrates her own journey through the year 1938, from the future perspective of 1966, after she runs upon photographs of a man named Tinker Grey. "Rules of Civility," the first novel by Amor Towles, chronicles a transitional year in the life of a young woman in Manhattan.
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