
Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of Temptation and Intoxication. Back home, Youth's mother dies, and Love tries unsuccessfully to reach him. When Youth's money runs out his newfound friends all leave him and he sinks into a life of drug addiction, aided by Habit.

as Youth

as Experience

as Love

as Ambition

as Hope

as Mother

as Pleasure

as Opportunity

as Chance

as Tout

as Despair

as Intoxication

as Good Nature

as Poverty

as Wealth

as Beauty

as Fashion

as Sport

as Excitement

as Conceit

as Temptation

as Work

as Delusion

as Crime

as Habit

as Degradation

as Frailty

as Makeshift

as Gloom

