A Baseball Cap For Dave Analysis

Through a Marxist’s eyes, Death of a Salesman represents the struggle of middle-class families in a capitalistic world. From an early age, kids are taught to do well in school, be involved with sports and activities, and to go on to college; all in hopes of achieving the American Dream. This dream of obtaining success through hard work leads many into the

“It was a red hunting hat, with one of these very, very long peaks… It only cost me a buck. The way I wore it, I swung the old peak way around to the back- very corny. I’ll admit, but I liked it that way. I looked good in it that way.” (Salinger, 21)

“The mother removes her purse from her shoulder and rummages through its contents: lipstick, a lace handkerchief, an address book. She finds what she’s looking for and passes a folded dollar over her child’s head to the man who stands and stares even though the light has changed and traffic navigates around his hips… He does not know his part. He does not know that acceptance of the gift and gratitude are what makes this transaction complete… The mother grows impatient and pushes the stroller before her, bearing the dollar like a cross. Finally, a black hand rises and closes around green” (paragraphs 3-5).

“But you didn’t give me as much as you gave him. isn’t my money as good as his? Don’t you know they always give men more?”(Page 168)

Acceptance and security. These are the two things that every human being wants. How they gain those two things varies from person to person.But most of us are privileged enough to not worry about these two very important necessities.However there are people in the world who are not so lucky. Those are the people who are failed to be understood by the rest of the world. However a lot of us are asleep to those people and their problems.Sometimes it takes a piece of art or literature to wake us up to those problems and a piece of literature that can do that is the novel written by S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders.In her novel Hinton, writes about two socioeconomic classes, the greasers and the Socs, who live their lives on the two ends of social status, near-poverty and full on rich, respectively.The cloak of money shields both sides to understand the others problems and the society is unable to take off the cloak as well. The novel is also a good eye-opener to how social,emotional,and economic forces can shape a person’s life and how if one can truly understand a person for what they are the world might just be a better place.

Not only does the money represent good, but also bad where its fuels more the conflict between the siblings Walter and Beneatha. As one can see, Walter seeks to use the money to invest in a new liquor store with his friends; Beneatha looks to use the money to pay for medical school. The conflict is, the money brings only parallels the thought that money can corrupt an individual and this case it corrupts the family as each of them tries to take the money for their own use. For this reason, Mama is the only individual who uses the money for the whole family purchasing the house in order to move them out of the tight, dark, and bad apartment they were living in. The money drives the family; the one individual who seems mostly mesmerized by money is Walter who portrays the average African American man who with the money symbolizes the common misuse of money especially in a society where African Americans are expected to be poor and uneducated. Mama explains the impact of the money when she said “Oh—so now it’s life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life—now it’s money. I guess the world really does change . . .”

With each able character flaunting their money when they have the chance. Even in the few times we talk to Meyer Wolfshiem “Finest specimens of human molars” (Fitzgerald 72). This blatant display leaves Nick thinking about the endless possible of being infinity wealthy. All the money makes for confusing morals and characters who care more for the items they own then their actual friends. “The novel is fascinated by how people make their money, what they can and can’t buy with it (Edwards).” For example, the unfathomable amount of shirts. This shows how shallow that Daisy actually is; she is basically going for highest bidding man. This proves how people within this story care more about themselves then they do for the ones they

One day Dick made a friend named Frank. Frank is different than Dick, he is not poor he was born into a life of comfort. Franks Uncle Mr. Whitley, who Dick looks up to because he represents Dick’s aspirations in both money and status. Mr. Whiteley gave Dick one of his nephew’s suits and that completely changed Dick’s socioeconomic rank. From the moment Dick get the grey suit from Mr. Whitley and gets cleaned up not only does he receive better treatment, but in a scene where he and Frank are accused of stealing something on a train, they are acquitted because they did not look like the type of kids that would need to steal. Dick implies that clothes really do make the man, who is largely determined by what one wears, that although appearances matter in Alger 's world, it 's ultimately inner virtues like honesty, generosity, and courage that defines one’s self and its potential. Looks can be deceiving. When Dick has his suit on he is not known as Ragged Dick anymore. The bank officer ends up calling him richard hunter. He said that Dick did not look ragged. Now that he is dressing nice it is bringing him more attention in a positive way. In the poor parts of the streets he is known as Ragged Dick, but when he is around people of a higher social class. He calls himself  Richard Hunter. For example after church he was talking to miss Ida  "What is your name? asked Ida, pleasantly. Our hero was about to answer Ragged Dick, when it occurred to him that in the present

From a young age, girls and boys are separated in all walks of life; none is truer than in sports, especially baseball. In 1939 Little League Baseball was founded for anyone between the ages of 5 and 18; leading with their motto Courage, Character, and Loyalty. This idea of courage was especially true in the year 1950, when Kathryn Johnston tucker her hair under her baseball cap, took on the nickname “Tubby” and posed as a boy for her local teams tryouts. It was not until after she made the team that Kathryn revealed her true identity, leaving the local league no choice but to allow her play. In just one year after that incident, the Little League regulations were changed (as too should have their motto). Their new document read out “Girls

In the letter “Birds and Bees? No, Let’s talk about Dollars and Cents”, Ben Stein, a lawyer and financial columnist for The New York Times, writes to his son to talk to him about life, and more importantly, money. He wants his son to know the struggles that his great-grandparents had to endure because they did not gain any capital and try to advance themselves financially. Because his son has grown up in a good home and the author is only the second in his family to accumulate any real capital, he wants his son to know what it's like to be successful and persuade him to work hard in order to avoid the struggles that his great-grandparents had to endure.

For a long time August always wore anything that could cover his face mostly baseball caps even at water parks he would wear them because ever since he lost his Astronaut helmet he has nothing to wear to make people stop staring and when he is in school he had to keep his down because students can’t wear hats in school August’s baseball cap is important to the book because it stops people from staring at him which helped a lot in school but then he got his hearing aids which means he can’t wear baseball caps for a long time.

Walter presumes that ‘it’s always money’ and how Mama can’t use it in the right way. Walter later responds that ‘money is life,’ explaining to Mama that success is now defined by how much money one has. This conversation takes place early in the play and reveals Mama’s and Walters economic struggles. However we see a turn of events when Walter plans to accept Mr. Lindner’s offer. Walter is not concerned with the degrading implications of the business deal; it is simply a way to recover some of the lot money. However, Hansberry challenges Walter’s crude interpretation of the American Dream by forcing him to actually carry out the transaction in front of his son. Walter’s inability to deal with Mr. Linder marks a significant revision of his interpretation of the American Dream. Walter comes to a realisation that money is not everything and how family is so much more valuable. During the late 1950’s money was defined as one of the main characteristics of a man, and who that man will become. Walters dream is to obtain enough money to provide enough for his family, this dream of his suggests how his American Dream is also vanished, as money was an immense part of this dream of his. Wily Loman is the complete opposite; he fails to understand that there is so much more to becoming successful than being rich. The failure to understand this concept brought him to a sudden death. Willy is like every

Brett is the picture perfect image of the post-war generation transformation of values in relation to gender. In the roaring twenties, Brett embraces her freedom; she is the typical roaring twenties lady, with a boyish haircut, and both the drinking and sexual promiscuity of a man. Her infatuation with money and her interaction with money and other values is interesting, as she interacts indirectly through means of drinks, meals, clothing articles, trips, and sexual affairs. What makes Brett most interesting is that she herself is a value amongst men, giving her body, companionship, and friendship to Jake, Mike, and her many suitors. As the theme of the importance of money continues, some may wonder how Brett is included in such a money-thirsty group when she herself doesn’t spend much of a dime; this is because her primary man,

The struggle of an individual in a class alienated society is emphasised by presenting two disparate classes: the bourgeois and the proletariat. The bourgeois are describes by the narrator as ‘titans and their gigantic wives’ who ‘drink barrels of champagne and bellow at each other wearing diamonds bigger than I feel’. The exaggeration used adds to the cynical tone to mock the elements of the bourgeois, but also suggests the hollowness of their wealth and how they possess greater than the narrator can grasp. The narrator in comparsion feels like a ‘cockroach’ shown in the description; they ‘just want to see you run around their money…they know they can’t threaten you with the tip, to them

The power of money plays an important role as one of the many symbols in short story. The money the baker wages is used as a symbol for the value of fifteen years of the young lawyer's life that will be spent imprisoned, with no human connection. They are also a symbol for the greed of the young lawyer, who is willing to sacrifice 15 years of his life, either to prove his point in the argument, or for the money. Through the marxist lens the reader would be able to see that money is a motivator and leads people to do things they wouldn't if, money was not in the picture. If the banker and lawyer were both not high member in their society, they would have just debated over the issue and agreed not agree, but because egos and power comes into play the outcome is different.