The Big Town is a novel written by Ring Lardner, a well-known American author and journalist. The book is set in the 1920s and tells the story of a young man named J. Alfred Prufrock, who moves from a small town to Chicago in search of fame and fortune.J. Alfred Prufrock is a naive and ambitious young man who dreams of becoming a successful writer. He arrives in Chicago with nothing but a few dollars in his pocket and a head full of dreams. He soon...