A Deal in Wheat

A Deal in Wheat, short story by Frank Norris, first published serially in 1902 and then in the book A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West, published posthumously in 1903. Employing the techniques of naturalism, the five-part story examines the business of wheat speculation at the Chicago Board of Trade and its effects at the turn of the 20th century. The first episode of “A Deal in Wheat” features...