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"
Who
is
one
?
What
makes
you
one
?
"
Amory
considered
.
"
Why
--
why
,
I
suppose
that
the
sign
of
it
is
when
a
fellow
slicks
his
hair
back
with
water
.
"
"
Like
Carstairs
?
"
"
Yes
--
sure
.
He
's
a
slicker
.
"
They
spent
two
evenings
getting
an
exact
definition
.
The
slicker
was
good-looking
or
clean-looking
;
he
had
brains
,
social
brains
,
that
is
,
and
he
used
all
means
on
the
broad
path
of
honesty
to
get
ahead
,
be
popular
,
admired
,
and
never
in
trouble
.
He
dressed
well
,
was
particularly
neat
in
appearance
,
and
derived
his
name
from
the
fact
that
his
hair
was
inevitably
worn
short
,
soaked
in
water
or
tonic
,
parted
in
the
middle
,
and
slicked
back
as
the
current
of
fashion
dictated
.
The
slickers
of
that
year
had
adopted
tortoise-shell
spectacles
as
badges
of
their
slickerhood
,
and
this
made
them
so
easy
to
recognize
that
Amory
and
Rahill
never
missed
one
.
The
slicker
seemed
distributed
through
school
,
always
a
little
wiser
and
shrewder
than
his
contemporaries
,
managing
some
team
or
other
,
and
keeping
his
cleverness
carefully
concealed
.
Amory
found
the
slicker
a
most
valuable
classification
until
his
junior
year
in
college
,
when
the
outline
became
so
blurred
and
indeterminate
that
it
had
to
be
subdivided
many
times
,
and
became
only
a
quality
.
Amory
's
secret
ideal
had
all
the
slicker
qualifications
,
but
,
in
addition
,
courage
and
tremendous
brains
and
talents
--
also
Amory
conceded
him
a
bizarre
streak
that
was
quite
irreconcilable
to
the
slicker
proper
.
This
was
a
first
real
break
from
the
hypocrisy
of
school
tradition
.
The
slicker
was
a
definite
element
of
success
,
differing
intrinsically
from
the
prep
school
"
big
man
.
"
"
THE
SLICKER
"
