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Introduction to the Author Joseph Epstein(1937-), noted essayist,short story author and novelist, was born in Chicago and grew up in Rogers Park. He then attended the University of Chicago and is now a promineng member of the literature faculty at Northwestern University. He is a teacher in the acclaimed prose, writing fiction, as well as literature classes on Henry James, Willa Cather, and Joseph Conrad. He won the 1998 harold Washington Literary Award for the most prominent man or women of letters in Chicago. Introdution to the Text Is ambition good or bad? There are those who argue that ambition is often evil; that “dreams of glory” ( in the words of the author) too often result in selfishness, rivalry, corruption, and a general lack of moral standards. If you are truly ambitious, then your goal — whether fame, wealth, or power — comes before everything else, including your family, other people, and even your own moral values. Hitler is one well-known example of the evils of ambition, and one needn’t look far to find other examples among both public figures and perhaps even our own acquaintances. The structure of the text Part 1 (para.1-3): None of this seems a sufficient cause for driving ambition under the counter. Part 2 ( para.4-5):What is the worst that can be said about ambition. Part 3 ( para.6-7): There is a heavy note of hypocrisy in this. Part 4 ( para.8-11): To discourage ambition is to discourage dreams of greatness. Part 5 ( para.12-13): How unrelievedly boring life would be. Language Points Rorschach word (line 1, Para. 1) =Rorschach inkblot test, which was developed in 1921 by Swiss psychiatrist Herman Rorschach (1844-1922). He believed that people reveal their personality traits and unconscious thoughts by how they interpret inkblot designs. Psychologists administer the test by showing subjects a series of ten inkblot cards, asking them to describe what they see, and questioning them about their responses. Rorschach words refer to words that have