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
