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Malamud, The Assistant Summaries Chapter 1 Morris Bober, a Jewish grocer being 60 years old, opens his store in the morning of a cold November day. ... 97) In the fourth chapter of Bernard Malamuds "The assistant" business is quite good. ... The gifts, a scarf and a book by Shakespeare, have been quite expensive and Helen feels bad by keeping these things that the poor shop assistant spent most of his money for. ... Therefore he starts watching his assistant more carefully.