In the end, Duddy has no friend left. But back in the Montreal St. Urbain Street joint where his taxi-driving and pimping father spends most of his time, entertaining regulars with stories often involving the Boy Wonder, someone somehow recognizes Duddy as the guy who has recently acquired all of the land surrounding the lake in the Laurentians, and when Duddy, ordering servings for everyone while he has no cash left to pay for any, gestures to his father, he is answered by the patron, "That's all right, sir. We'll mark it." He has made it. He's become a "somebody". He grabs his father Max, spins him around, repeating, "you see."