ABSTRACT

In each of the six chapters on styles of life, we have been concerned with both style and success. The two themes have been interwoven in the case material. There are important relations between style and success, a matter to which we shall return in the beginning of Chapter Nine. In the present chapter we wish to focus, on the one hand, on success as such and the factors which make for it, and, on the other, on some interrelations between styles. We shall analyze two cases of the most successful agers, and two cases of the least successful agers, in some depth. Then we shall analyze two cases, each of which illustrates a fundamental relationship between styles.