{ "groups": [ { "id": "G01", "name": "Spending ahead of what you earn", "predicament": "You are spending more than you earn, often to keep up with free-spending company, and the bills are coming due.", "sentence": "A young earner wants to live well now from their own pay packet, and the company they keep.", "actor": "young earner", "wants": "to live well now", "counterpart": "their own pay packet, and the company they keep", "stories": [ 1, 3, 8 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 2: Mr. Pierrepont's expense account has just passed under his father's eye, and has furnished him with a text for some plain particularities.", "Letter 4: Mr. Pierrepont has suggested the grand tour as a proper finish to his education.", "Letter 9: Mr. Pierrepont has been investing more heavily in roses than his father thinks his means warrant, and he tries to turn his thoughts to staple groceries." ], "standing": { "low": 6 }, "stage": "low", "members": [ { "chunk": 8, "story": 1, "predicament": "A young person 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"money": "+", "relationships.peers": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Keep saving, and keep expenses down.", "source": "advice:10", "moves": { "money": "+", "flags.buying_in": "set" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Spend freely, so nobody thinks you mean.", "source": "advice:11", "moves": { "relationships.peers": "+", "money": "-", "standing": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Ask for an advance on your pay.", "source": "scene:13", "moves": { "money": "+", "relationships.boss": "-" }, "in_group": false }, { "text": "Spend it as fast as it comes.", "source": "advice:10", "moves": { "money": "-", "relationships.peers": "+" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G02", "name": "Starting at the bottom", "predicament": "You are starting at the bottom on low pay and dull work, and must decide whether it is a first step or a resting place.", "sentence": "A new hand wants to rise from the boss who put them there.", "actor": "new hand", "wants": "to rise", "counterpart": "the boss who put 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"advice:20", "moves": { "judgment": "+", "money": "+", "relationships.boss": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Learn how little you can do and still keep the job.", "source": "scene:33", "moves": { "relationships.boss": "-", "standing": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Hold your own job firmly and reach for the next one.", "source": "advice:33", "moves": { "hustle": "+", "relationships.boss": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Come early, stay late and keep at it.", "source": "advice:35", "moves": { "hustle": "+", "standing": "+" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G03", "name": "Doing just enough", "predicament": "You could keep your place with half your effort, and must decide whether the other half is worth giving.", "sentence": "A settled employee wants to keep the job without killing themselves from the boss deciding who rises.", "actor": "settled employee", "wants": "to keep the job without killing themselves", "counterpart": "the boss deciding who rises", "stories": [ 5, 10, 14 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 6: Mr. Pierrepont has, entirely without intention, caused a little confusion in the mails, and it has come to his father's notice in the course of business.", "Letter 11: Mr. Pierrepont's orders are small and his expenses are large, so his father feels pessimistic over his prospects.", "Letter 15: Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted again, and the old man sends him a little advice with his appointment." ], "standing": { "low": 3, "middle": 3, "high": 1 }, "stage": "low", "members": [ { "chunk": 40, "story": 5, "predicament": "Someone who can work well when they choose lets their mind wander at a dull task, and the mistakes surface later." }, { "chunk": 41, "story": 5, "predicament": "Someone arrives at work sluggishly and leaves on the stroke, not seeing that this decides whether they are ever trusted with more." }, { "chunk": 44, "story": 5, "predicament": "Someone in line for the next opening does not see that small habits of punctuality and full 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true }, { "text": "Learn more of the business than your job needs.", "source": "advice:81", "moves": { "judgment": "+", "flags.promoted": "set" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Come in late, leave early, and do your own business in between.", "source": "advice:44", "moves": { "money": "+", "flags.passed_over": "set" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Take on every extra job going, and cheerfully.", "source": "advice:87", "moves": { "hustle": "+", "flags.promoted": "set" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G04", "name": "A hard boss", "predicament": "Your superior is gruff, demanding and unimpressed with you, and you are tempted to complain, sulk or go over their head.", "sentence": "A subordinate wants fair treatment and a chance from a gruff superior.", "actor": "subordinate", "wants": "fair treatment and a chance", "counterpart": "a gruff superior", "stories": [ 4, 6, 11 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 5: Mr. Pierrepont has written to his father withdrawing his suggestion.", "Letter 7: 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"predicament": "Someone who was passed over blames a rival's connections and a jealous superior for holding them back." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Say you cannot work under them.", "source": "advice:45", "moves": { "relationships.boss": "-", "standing": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Give way to them, and approach them with respect.", "source": "advice:46", "moves": { "relationships.boss": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Go over their head and report what is wrong with them.", "source": "advice:46", "moves": { "relationships.boss": "-", "relationships.owner": "risk" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Take the criticism in wounded silence.", "source": "advice:88", "moves": { "relationships.boss": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Complain that you are being held down.", "source": "advice:89", "moves": { "relationships.boss": "-", "standing": "-" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G05", "name": "Talking yourself up", "predicament": "You are doing well, or want to seem 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around the office.", "source": "advice:50", "moves": { "standing": "-", "relationships.peers": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Rise on talk and show while it works.", "source": "advice:139", "moves": { "standing": "risk" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Give more than you are paid for.", "source": "advice:138", "moves": { "hustle": "+", "standing": "+" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G06", "name": "Saying too much", "predicament": "You are tempted to say more than you need to: a joke, a retort, an opinion, or a complaint about someone.", "sentence": "A talker wants to be heard from whoever is listening.", "actor": "talker", "wants": "to be heard", "counterpart": "whoever is listening", "stories": [ 4, 6, 9 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 5: Mr. Pierrepont has written to his father withdrawing his suggestion.", "Letter 7: Mr. Pierrepont hasn't found the methods of the worthy Milligan altogether to his liking, and he has commented rather freely on them.", "Letter 10: Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted to the position of traveling salesman for the house, and has started out on the road." ], "standing": { "low": 3, "middle": 2 }, "stage": "low", "members": [ { "chunk": 32, "story": 4, "predicament": "Someone doing business must decide how much to say, knowing that every word past the point can be turned against them." }, { "chunk": 47, "story": 6, "predicament": "Someone too busy telling others what they know ignores every warning about the risky new thing they have taken on." }, { "chunk": 49, "story": 6, "predicament": "Someone looking for a new place is tempted to win sympathy by running down the employer they are leaving." }, { "chunk": 71, "story": 9, "predicament": "Someone newly put in front of customers is tempted to answer their complaints with a smart retort." }, { "chunk": 72, "story": 9, "predicament": "Someone makes a flippant remark while bargaining and hands the other side an opening to mock them." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Say what you came to say, and stop.", "source": "advice:32", "moves": { "judgment": "+", "money": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Listen more than you talk.", "source": "advice:33", "moves": { "judgment": "+", "relationships.counterpart": "+" }, "in_group": false }, { "text": "Crack the joke.", "source": "advice:72", "moves": { "standing": "-", "relationships.counterpart": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Run down the people you used to work for.", "source": "advice:49", "moves": { "relationships.boss": "-", "flags.not_hired": "set" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Answer back with a smart retort.", "source": "advice:71", "moves": { "relationships.counterpart": "-", "money": "-" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G07", "name": "A customer tries you", "predicament": "A customer complains, needles you or sets a trap, and how you answer decides whether you keep their trade.", "sentence": "A seller wants to keep the trade from a difficult customer.", "actor": "seller", "wants": "to keep the trade", "counterpart": "a difficult customer", "stories": [ 9, 10, 11 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 10: Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted to the position of traveling salesman for the house, and has started out on the road.", "Letter 11: Mr. Pierrepont's orders are small and his expenses are large, so his father feels pessimistic over his prospects.", "Letter 12: Mr. Pierrepont has annoyed his father by accepting his criticisms in a spirit of gentle, but most reprehensible, resignation." ], "standing": { "middle": 4 }, "stage": "middle", "members": [ { "chunk": 74, "story": 9, "predicament": "Someone courting buyers must decide how far to flatter them, beg them, or run down the rival's goods to win an order." }, { "chunk": 75, "story": 9, "predicament": "A customer is complaining about the goods, and someone must judge whether the complaint is a lie, an exaggeration or the truth." }, { "chunk": 82, "story": 10, "predicament": "A customer sets a trap to make an ill-informed seller look foolish in front of an audience." }, { "chunk": 93, "story": 11, "predicament": "Someone is sure a person they must deal with is a liar, and must decide whether and how to say so." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Settle a fair complaint on the spot, bargaining down from the first figure.", "source": "advice:75", "moves": { "money": "-", "relationships.customer": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Know your goods well enough to turn their trap round.", "source": "advice:82", "moves": { "judgment": "+", "money": "+", "standing": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Say something about them that they will take as praise.", "source": "advice:93", "moves": { "judgment": "+", "relationships.customer": "+", "money": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Flatter them.", "source": "advice:74", "moves": { "relationships.customer": "+", "standing": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Tell them to their face that they are a liar.", "source": "advice:93", "moves": { "relationships.customer": "-", "flags.fought": "set" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G08", "name": "Goods nobody wants", "predicament": "You have goods to sell and buyers who feel no need of them.", "sentence": "A seller wants to move the goods from buyers who are not hungry.", "actor": "seller", "wants": "to move the goods", "counterpart": "buyers who are not hungry", "stories": [ 7, 9, 11 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 8: Mr. Pierrepont has just been promoted from the mailing to the billing desk and, in consequence, his father is feeling rather \"mellow\" toward him.", "Letter 10: Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted to the position of traveling salesman for the house, and has started out on the road.", "Letter 12: Mr. Pierrepont has annoyed his father by accepting his criticisms in a spirit of gentle, but most reprehensible, resignation." ], "standing": { "low": 2, "middle": 4 }, "stage": "middle", "members": [ { "chunk": 51, "story": 7, "predicament": "Someone with more stock than 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"judgment": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Tell the buyers plainly that they need it.", "source": "scene:77", "moves": { "relationships.customer": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Stage a show that makes the need feel real.", "source": "advice:98", "moves": { "money": "+", "flags.sharp_practice": "set" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Dress the same goods up as something new.", "source": "advice:51", "moves": { "money": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Take them where the money already is.", "source": "advice:78", "moves": { "money": "+", "hustle": "+" }, "in_group": false } ] }, { "id": "G09", "name": "Easy money", "predicament": "Someone offers, or the market seems to offer, money for nothing, and you have a little you could stake.", "sentence": "A person of small means wants to get rich quicker from a schemer, a tipster, or the market.", "actor": "person of small means", "wants": "to get rich quicker", "counterpart": "a schemer, a tipster, or the market", "stories": [ 3, 4, 13 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 4: Mr. Pierrepont has suggested the grand tour as a proper finish to his education.", "Letter 5: Mr. Pierrepont has written to his father withdrawing his suggestion.", "Letter 14: Mr. Pierrepont has taken a little flyer in short ribs on 'Change, and has accidentally come into the line of his father's vision." ], "standing": { "low": 3, "middle": 3 }, "stage": "low", "members": [ { "chunk": 30, "story": 3, "predicament": "A newly prosperous person abroad is marked as an easy target by everyone with something to sell them." }, { "chunk": 36, "story": 4, "predicament": "A friend full of get-rich-quick schemes offers to let you in on the ground floor if you will stake them." }, { "chunk": 37, "story": 4, "predicament": "Someone spends their nights scheming at private ventures while drawing wages for the work they are paid to think about." }, { "chunk": 109, "story": 13, "predicament": "Someone on modest pay is tempted to gamble on prices, sure that their inside view of the trade gives them an edge." }, { "chunk": 111, "story": 13, "predicament": "Someone is offered a return on their money so high that it ought to make them ask what is wrong with it." }, { "chunk": 117, "story": 13, "predicament": "Someone who talks themselves out of their principles to take easy money finds it already gone." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Stay clear: take the elevator to the roof garden.", "source": "advice:36", "moves": { "judgment": "+", "relationships.schemer": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Take a little flyer on it.", "source": "scene:108", "moves": { "money": "risk", "relationships.boss": "-", "flags.speculated": "set" }, "in_group": false }, { "text": "Lend them a little rather than join in.", "source": "advice:37", "moves": { "money": "-", "relationships.schemer": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Ask why the return is so high before you trust it.", "source": "advice:111", "moves": { "judgment": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Talk yourself into it, principles and all.", "source": "scene:117", "moves": { "money": "risk", "standing": "-" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G10", "name": "Taking someone on", "predicament": "You are about to hire or trust someone on the strength of how they look, how they talk, or who vouches for them.", "sentence": "A employer wants a good hand from the candidate and whoever vouches for them.", "actor": "employer", "wants": "a good hand", "counterpart": "the candidate and whoever vouches for them", "stories": [ 6, 7, 12 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 7: Mr. Pierrepont hasn't found the methods of the worthy Milligan altogether to his liking, and he has commented rather freely on them.", "Letter 8: Mr. Pierrepont has just been promoted from the mailing to the billing desk and, in consequence, his father is feeling rather \"mellow\" toward him.", "Letter 13: Mr. Pierrepont's orders have been looking up, so the old man gives him a pat on the back--but not too hard a one." ], "standing": { "low": 4, "middle": 3 }, "stage": "low", "members": [ { "chunk": 48, "story": 6, "predicament": "Someone confidently approaches a quiet-looking danger and is badly hurt, learning that the smooth ones are the ones to fear." }, { "chunk": 53, "story": 7, "predicament": "Someone is asked to take on a newcomer on the strength of a doting parent's glowing account of them." }, { "chunk": 56, "story": 7, "predicament": "Someone must judge the worth of something or someone they are fond of, and fondness is clouding their judgement." }, { "chunk": 59, "story": 7, "predicament": "Someone has taken on a friend's child as a favour, and the placement is failing in a way that will cost the friendship." }, { "chunk": 105, "story": 12, "predicament": "Someone is about to take on a person who looks exactly right, without having tried them out first." }, { "chunk": 106, "story": 12, "predicament": "Someone trusted and rewarded for their polish turns out to have been quietly stealing all along." }, { "chunk": 107, "story": 12, "predicament": "Someone who trusted an employee for their manners learns, too late, that they paid for the getaway." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Take them on the word of whoever vouches for them.", "source": "scene:53", "moves": { "relationships.friend": "+", "money": "risk" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Try them out in the work before committing.", "source": "advice:105", "moves": { "judgment": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Get an outsider's valuation, in figures.", "source": "advice:56", "moves": { "judgment": "+", "relationships.friend": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Trust the one with the polished manners.", "source": "advice:107", "moves": { "relationships.hire": "+", "money": "risk" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Be on your guard against anyone too smooth.", "source": "advice:48", "moves": { "judgment": "+", "relationships.hire": "-" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G11", "name": "Looking the part", "predicament": "You want to be taken for more than you yet are, and must decide how much to spend on looking the part.", "sentence": "A person on the way up wants to be taken seriously from the people who judge by appearances.", "actor": "person on the way up", "wants": "to be taken seriously", "counterpart": "the people who judge by appearances", "stories": [ 3, 12, 15, 16 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 4: Mr. Pierrepont has suggested the grand tour as a proper finish to his education.", "Letter 13: Mr. Pierrepont's orders have been looking up, so the old man gives him a pat on the back--but not too hard a one.", "Letter 16: Mr. Pierrepont has shown mild symptoms of an attack of society fever, and his father is administering some simple remedies.", "Letter 17: Mr. Pierrepont has written his father that he is getting along famously in his new place." ], "standing": { "low": 1, "middle": 4, "high": 3 }, "stage": "middle", "members": [ { "chunk": 31, "story": 3, "predicament": "Someone who has built a name by their work is tempted to buy the trappings of inherited rank instead." }, { "chunk": 100, "story": 12, "predicament": "Someone whose work has begun to pay off is told their way of dressing is costing them the trust of people who matter." }, { "chunk": 101, "story": 12, "predicament": "Someone whose position rests on others' confidence is seen doing something that looks like a sign of trouble." }, { "chunk": 102, "story": 12, "predicament": "Someone rising in the world finds that habits nobody minded before now count against them." }, { "chunk": 104, "story": 12, "predicament": "Someone who is not yet anything in particular must decide how much to invest in looking the part." }, { "chunk": 134, "story": 15, "predicament": "A newcomer keeps calling on neighbours who are always out, never guessing that they are refusing to know them." }, { "chunk": 135, "story": 15, "predicament": "Someone snubbed by their neighbours throws a lavish public show to win them all over at once." }, { "chunk": 144, "story": 16, "predicament": "Someone is ruled by fear of looking foolish, and it pushes them to pose and spend beyond their means." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Get a sober, well-made suit and look the part.", "source": "scene:100", "moves": { "money": "-", "standing": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Look like someone of consequence before you are one.", "source": "advice:104", "moves": { "standing": "+", "money": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Build your name on your work, not on borrowed rank.", "source": "advice:31", "moves": { "standing": "+", "hustle": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Throw a lavish show to win acceptance.", "source": "advice:135", "moves": { "money": "-", "standing": "-", "flags.public_scandal": "set" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Keep up appearances beyond your means.", "source": "advice:144", "moves": { "money": "-", "standing": "risk" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G12", "name": "Someone under you falls short", "predicament": "Someone under you is slack, wrong for the post, or in a bad habit, and it falls to you to act.", "sentence": "A manager wants the work done well from a subordinate falling short.", "actor": "manager", "wants": "the work done well", "counterpart": "a subordinate falling short", "stories": [ 3, 5, 12, 14 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 4: Mr. Pierrepont has suggested the grand tour as a proper finish to his education.", "Letter 6: Mr. Pierrepont has, entirely without intention, caused a little confusion in the mails, and it has come to his father's notice in the course of business.", "Letter 13: Mr. Pierrepont's orders have been looking up, so the old man gives him a pat on the back--but not too hard a one.", "Letter 15: Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted again, and the old man sends him a little advice with his appointment." ], "standing": { "low": 2, "middle": 1, "high": 2 }, "stage": "low", "members": [ { "chunk": 28, "story": 3, "predicament": "Someone in charge keeps putting off hard decisions about people and bills until the consequences arrive on their own." }, { "chunk": 43, "story": 5, "predicament": "Someone who keeps needing to be rescued finds that the people in charge have finally stopped spending time on them." }, { "chunk": 103, "story": 12, "predicament": "Someone in a conspicuous place catches a junior in the very habit they indulge in themselves." }, { "chunk": 121, "story": 14, "predicament": "Someone newly in charge of others must decide whether to drive them, shame them, or lead them by example and praise." }, { "chunk": 122, "story": 14, "predicament": "Someone in charge has found that a person they hired is wrong for the place and is reluctant to let them go." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Let a wrong hire go at once, with a month's pay.", "source": "advice:122", "moves": { "money": "-", "relationships.staff": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Put it off a little longer.", "source": "advice:28", "moves": { "money": "-", "flags.lost_good_hand": "set" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Set the example yourself, starting with your own habits.", "source": "advice:103", "moves": { "hustle": "+", "relationships.staff": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Tell them bluntly what is wrong with them.", "source": "advice:121", "moves": { "relationships.staff": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Threaten them.", "source": "advice:122", "moves": { "relationships.staff": "-", "standing": "risk" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G13", "name": "Caught between two sides", "predicament": "You stand between two sides who each want your loyalty, and favouring either openly will cost you with the other.", "sentence": "A go-between wants to keep both sides from those above and those below, or the firm and the customer.", "actor": "go-between", "wants": "to keep both sides", "counterpart": "those above and those below, or the firm and the customer", "stories": [ 11, 15, 17 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 12: Mr. Pierrepont has annoyed his father by accepting his criticisms in a spirit of gentle, but most reprehensible, resignation.", "Letter 16: Mr. Pierrepont has shown mild symptoms of an attack of society fever, and his father is administering some simple remedies.", "Letter 18: Mr. Pierrepont is worried over rumors that the old man is a bear on lard and that the longs are about to make him climb a tree." ], "standing": { "middle": 2, "high": 3 }, "stage": "high", "members": [ { "chunk": 92, "story": 11, "predicament": "Someone must keep two parties content who each resent any favour shown to the other." }, { "chunk": 94, "story": 11, "predicament": "Someone standing between their employer and the customers must keep the trust of both, when cheating either would be easy." }, { "chunk": 128, "story": 15, "predicament": "Someone newly placed between a manager and the staff finds each side blaming them for the other's faults." }, { "chunk": 129, "story": 15, "predicament": "Someone serving as a superior's deputy must win the goodwill of both the one above and those below." }, { "chunk": 149, "story": 17, "predicament": "Someone is praised by one side and reviled by the other for the same act, and must decide whom to heed." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Try openly to please both sides.", "source": "advice:92", "moves": { "relationships.boss": "-", "relationships.other_side": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Keep them apart, and let each think they have slightly the better of it.", "source": "advice:92", "moves": { "judgment": "+", "relationships.boss": "+", "relationships.other_side": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Please your own side and let the other grumble.", "source": "advice:149", "moves": { "relationships.boss": "+", "relationships.other_side": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Cut a corner on one side to keep the other sweet.", "source": "advice:94", "moves": { "relationships.boss": "+", "relationships.other_side": "-", "flags.skinned_someone": "set" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Explain yourself to both.", "source": "advice:128", "moves": { "relationships.other_side": "+", "standing": "-" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G14", "name": "Sizing up a match", "predicament": "You are drifting toward marrying someone and have not yet taken a clear look at them, their family, or what it will cost.", "sentence": "A suitor wants to marry well from the person they are courting, and that person's family.", "actor": "suitor", "wants": "to marry well", "counterpart": "the person they are courting, and that person's family", "stories": [ 8, 18, 19 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 9: Mr. Pierrepont has been investing more heavily in roses than his father thinks his means warrant, and he tries to turn his thoughts to staple groceries.", "Letter 19: The old man, on the voyage home, has met a girl who interests him and who in turn seems to be interested in Mr. Pierrepont.", "Letter 20: Mr. Pierrepont has told the old man \"what's what\" and received a limited blessing." ], "standing": { "low": 2, "high": 4 }, "stage": "high", "members": [ { "chunk": 65, "story": 8, "predicament": "Someone of modest pay is choosing whom to marry, and money on either side threatens to spoil the match." }, { "chunk": 70, "story": 8, "predicament": "Someone who made one bad match tries to balance it with the opposite mistake, and is mocked for both." }, { "chunk": 158, "story": 18, "predicament": "Someone on a modest salary seems serious about a sensible partner, and must weigh whether their means will carry a marriage." }, { "chunk": 159, "story": 18, "predicament": "Someone is tempted to marry a charming heir whose inherited money covers a weak character underneath." }, { "chunk": 172, "story": 19, "predicament": "Someone about to be engaged must learn how their partner behaves in ordinary daily life, not only at their best." }, { "chunk": 173, "story": 19, "predicament": "Someone about to marry needs to know how their partner behaves when angry or crossed over money." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Size them up before you are engaged, at breakfast as well as at the theatre.", "source": "advice:172", "moves": { "judgment": "+", "relationships.partner": "risk" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Marry someone raised above the means you can give them.", "source": "advice:65", "moves": { "relationships.partner": "+", "money": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Tell them exactly what you earn.", "source": "advice:63", "moves": { "relationships.partner": "risk", "judgment": "+" }, "in_group": false }, { "text": "Marry a sensible partner, even on modest pay.", "source": "advice:158", "moves": { "relationships.partner": "+", "money": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Propose first and find out later.", "source": "advice:172", "moves": { "relationships.partner": "+", "flags.married_in_haste": "set" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G15", "name": "The wrong line of work", "predicament": "You are in, or headed for, work that does not suit you, and must decide whether to push on, switch, or wait for something better.", "sentence": "A misfit wants work that suits them from a parent or an employer with other plans.", "actor": "misfit", "wants": "work that suits them", "counterpart": "a parent or an employer with other plans", "stories": [ 0, 2, 7, 16 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 1: Mr. Pierrepont has just become a member, in good and regular standing, of the Freshman class.", "Letter 3: Mr. Pierrepont finds Cambridge to his liking, and has suggested that he take a post-graduate course to fill up some gaps which he has found in his education.", "Letter 8: Mr. Pierrepont has just been promoted from the mailing to the billing desk and, in consequence, his father is feeling rather \"mellow\" toward him.", "Letter 17: Mr. Pierrepont has written his father that he is getting along famously in his new place." ], "standing": { "low": 7, "high": 1 }, "stage": "low", "members": [ { "chunk": 5, "story": 0, "predicament": "A parent who has toiled all their life resolves that their child will be handed a living rather than earn one." }, { "chunk": 6, "story": 0, "predicament": "A highly educated person thrown on their own finds that none of their learning turns into work anyone will pay for." }, { "chunk": 7, "story": 0, "predicament": "Someone who knows a great deal has to learn that only the knowledge they can put to use will count for anything." }, { "chunk": 18, "story": 2, "predicament": "Someone whose family fortune has collapsed asks for any work at all and is put off with polite excuses." }, { "chunk": 57, "story": 7, "predicament": "A young person is set on work their family thinks wrong for them, and the family must decide whether to forbid it." }, { "chunk": 58, "story": 7, "predicament": "A young person placed in the family trade tells everyone plainly that it is not the work they want to do." }, { "chunk": 62, "story": 7, "predicament": "A misfit in the family trade, once left to find their own way, prospers in work that suits their gifts." }, { "chunk": 141, "story": 16, "predicament": "Someone fallen from comfortable circumstances refuses any work beneath their old position and lives on a relative meanwhile." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Try the work you are set on, whatever your family says.", "source": "advice:57", "moves": { "relationships.family": "-", "money": "risk" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Leave the family trade for one that suits your gifts.", "source": "advice:62", "moves": { "money": "+", "relationships.family": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Hold out for work worthy of your old position.", "source": "advice:141", "moves": { "money": "-", "standing": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Take whatever work is going, however heavy.", "source": "scene:19", "moves": { "money": "+", "hustle": "+", "standing": "-" }, "in_group": false }, { "text": "Tell your new superior how it ought to be done.", "source": "advice:6", "moves": { "relationships.boss": "-", "flags.dismissed": "set" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G16", "name": "The fast set", "predicament": "The people around you are spending their time and money on amusement, and you must decide how far to go along.", "sentence": "A young person wants to belong from free-spending companions.", "actor": "young person", "wants": "to belong", "counterpart": "free-spending companions", "stories": [ 0, 1, 15 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 1: Mr. Pierrepont has just become a member, in good and regular standing, of the Freshman class.", "Letter 2: Mr. Pierrepont's expense account has just passed under his father's eye, and has furnished him with a text for some plain particularities.", "Letter 16: Mr. Pierrepont has shown mild symptoms of an attack of society fever, and his father is administering some simple remedies." ], "standing": { "low": 3, "high": 3 }, "stage": "low", "members": [ { "chunk": 3, "story": 0, "predicament": "Someone with new freedom must decide how far to indulge in amusements, which do more harm than the hard work ever will." }, { "chunk": 14, "story": 1, "predicament": "Someone is pressed to do as everyone around them does and must decide whether to think and act for themselves instead." }, { "chunk": 15, "story": 1, "predicament": "A group of companions is following a charming leader who will slip away when trouble comes and leave them to pay for it." }, { "chunk": 130, "story": 15, "predicament": "Someone rising at work has begun spending working afternoons at play among an idle, fashionable set." }, { "chunk": 131, "story": 15, "predicament": "Someone is being drawn toward a fashionable set that looks down on anyone who works for a living." }, { "chunk": 137, "story": 15, "predicament": "Someone rising in the world must choose between congenial company and a fashionable set whose only business is play." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Do as everyone else does.", "source": "advice:14", "moves": { "relationships.peers": "+", "money": "-", "standing": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Keep away, even if it leaves you on your own.", "source": "advice:15", "moves": { "relationships.peers": "-", "judgment": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Go slow, and pick your amusements.", "source": "advice:3", "moves": { "judgment": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Take working afternoons off to play.", "source": "advice:130", "moves": { "relationships.peers": "+", "relationships.boss": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Cultivate the fashionable set.", "source": "advice:131", "moves": { "relationships.peers": "+", "money": "-", "standing": "risk" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G17", "name": "Rivals are taking the trade", "predicament": "Rivals are getting the better of you in the trade, and you must decide whether to explain it, shrug it off or go after them.", "sentence": "A seller or manager wants the business from rival firms.", "actor": "seller or manager", "wants": "the business", "counterpart": "rival firms", "stories": [ 9, 15, 17 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 10: Mr. Pierrepont has been promoted to the position of traveling salesman for the house, and has started out on the road.", "Letter 16: Mr. Pierrepont has shown mild symptoms of an attack of society fever, and his father is administering some simple remedies.", "Letter 18: Mr. Pierrepont is worried over rumors that the old man is a bear on lard and that the longs are about to make him climb a tree." ], "standing": { "middle": 2, "high": 2 }, "stage": "middle", "members": [ { "chunk": 76, "story": 9, "predicament": "Someone losing sales to competitors must decide whether to explain the setbacks at length or simply bring in business." }, { "chunk": 78, "story": 9, "predicament": "Someone whose sales are failing sends home long explanations about the competition instead of results." }, { "chunk": 127, "story": 15, "predicament": "Someone discovers rivals profiting from a line of trade that their firm has left alone as not its business." }, { "chunk": 148, "story": 17, "predicament": "Rumours are spreading that rivals have caught someone overextended in the market and mean to break them." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Send in a full account of what the competition is doing.", "source": "advice:78", "moves": { "relationships.boss": "-", "flags.resigned": "set" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Go for all of the trade, not a share of it.", "source": "advice:128", "moves": { "hustle": "+", "money": "+", "relationships.rival": "-" }, "in_group": false }, { "text": "Take up the line you left to them.", "source": "advice:127", "moves": { "money": "+", "hustle": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Stand and fight: you never sold what you could not deliver.", "source": "advice:148", "moves": { "standing": "+", "relationships.rival": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Go where the money already is.", "source": "advice:78", "moves": { "money": "+", "judgment": "+" }, "in_group": true } ] }, { "id": "G18", "name": "Your mistake has come to light", "predicament": "A mistake of yours has come to light, and you can own up, joke it off, cover it, or let it pass.", "sentence": "A person at fault wants to come out of it well from the one who found out.", "actor": "person at fault", "wants": "to come out of it well", "counterpart": "the one who found out", "stories": [ 3, 5, 13, 16 ], "story_titles": [ "Letter 4: Mr. Pierrepont has suggested the grand tour as a proper finish to his education.", "Letter 6: Mr. Pierrepont has, entirely without intention, caused a little confusion in the mails, and it has come to his father's notice in the course of business.", "Letter 14: Mr. Pierrepont has taken a little flyer in short ribs on 'Change, and has accidentally come into the line of his father's vision.", "Letter 17: Mr. Pierrepont has written his father that he is getting along famously in his new place." ], "standing": { "low": 2, "middle": 1, "high": 2 }, "stage": "low", "members": [ { "chunk": 29, "story": 3, "predicament": "Someone hopes a spell of travel and leisure will give them the polish they feel they lack before starting work." }, { "chunk": 39, "story": 5, "predicament": "Someone's careless personal slip at work has embarrassed their superiors before a customer, and they answered the rebuke with a joke." }, { "chunk": 108, "story": 13, "predicament": "Someone has quietly made a profit gambling on prices, and it has come to the notice of the one they work for." }, { "chunk": 146, "story": 16, "predicament": "Someone is being publicly praised for an accomplishment that was really a punishment, while the one who knows looks on." }, { "chunk": 147, "story": 16, "predicament": "Someone enjoying praise they did not earn is made to confess before everyone how they really came by it." } ], "options": [ { "text": "Own up at once.", "source": "advice:93", "moves": { "standing": "-", "relationships.boss": "+" }, "in_group": false }, { "text": "Make a joke of it.", "source": "scene:39", "moves": { "relationships.boss": "-" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Keep quiet and hope it passes.", "source": "advice:93", "moves": { "relationships.boss": "risk", "flags.covered_up": "set" }, "in_group": false }, { "text": "Take the public humbling.", "source": "advice:147", "moves": { "standing": "-", "judgment": "+" }, "in_group": true }, { "text": "Make sure it never happens twice.", "source": "advice:29", "moves": { "judgment": "+" }, "in_group": true } ] } ], "unassigned": [ 0, 1, 2, 4, 12, 13, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 42, 54, 55, 60, 61, 66, 67, 68, 69, 73, 79, 83, 84, 85, 86, 96, 97, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 118, 120, 123, 124, 125, 126, 132, 133, 136, 142, 143, 145, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185 ] }