The Bill Malamud

There are characters, which the migrants in the novel encounter, who take risks to help a person in poverty. At the beginning of the novel, Tom tells the driver of the red truck, "´ But sometimes a guy will be a good guy `" (11). Mae, who is unwilling to give a loaf of bread to the Joads, finds herself selling two pieces of candy for less than their value. The man at the register in the camp were the Joads were picking peaches lent Ma a dime. Ma needed sugar for Tom's request for coffee but was a dime short. The man was not allowed to lend money without a slip. " He looked pleadingly at her.   And then his face lost its fear. He took ten cents from his pocket and rang it up in the cash register." He took a risk of losing his job for Ma. The people that seem unwilling to help out usually have a good heart. They don't want to see the anguish and the pain these migrants have suffered. They want to help, but there is only so much a person can or is willing to do. The man who owned the gas station had lent gas to previous migrants who gave him dolls, furniture, and other utensils. The junk he got in exchange for

The girl lives in poverty, as her room “finally has a door that shuts (“Where Dreams Come From,” stanza 1, line 4,” and she lives in a “mortgaged house (“Where Dreams Come From,” stanza 5, line 3).” She detests that house and yearns to break the poverty cycle. One of the main reasons she has large aspirations that involve a good education is to break out of the poverty cycle and transform that old, rusty house into a mansion. Mitty’s wealth level is greater than the girl’s, however, he drives a Buick, a car that is known for being cheap and stogy, and fantasizes about being successful, center of attention and even wealthy. Such as, he had a “Doctor Fantasy,” where he was a well-renowned Physician that wrote a “brilliant novel on Streptothricosis (“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” page 1, paragraph 6).” He also despises the fact that he is not as successful or wealthy as his daydreams, which continue to fuel his imagination. Their emotions for living in poverty or lower-middle class are the feelings that many people in this wealth sector harbor. This causes them to push the limits and succeed to undertake their

When Lori and Jeanette are growing older, they decide they want to move to New York City to start a new life, away from their parents. Lori and Jeanette get jobs and begin to earn money. They hide their earnings from their parents in a piggy bank they named Oz. One day Jeanette tries to find Oz to put her paycheck in. Instead she says to Lori “Someone has slashed him apart with a knife and stole all the money” (Walls 228). The kids knew right away who had stolen it. It was Dad. When Lori confronted Dad with the news about Oz, he started playing dumb, acting like he had not idea what was going on. But in fact he did steal the money. This action shows that Dad is very selfish and only cares about himself.

Sara's father wanted to control everybody else's lives, in his family, but he did not want anyone telling him how to do things. He felt that he should be able to control the family spendings even though he did not earn a penny. He went against his wife's request and used every penny of their savings to buy the store. His wife asked him, "Promise me that you won't pay out the money till I come to see what you buy." (113). He went ahead and bought the store without letting his wife come down to see it first like he had promised her. He made a huge mistake then, just as he had with his daughters. He did not pick a good husband for any of his daughters. He was fooled not only by the store owner but also by the daughters' husbands. The reason he made all these mistakes is because he would not listen to anyone's advice. If he had listened to his wife, he would not have bought the store because she would have been with him, and she would have noticed something was wrong because she was already suspicious. She says, "Does he really ask only four hundred dollars for all this?...Ask him to give you a pencil to count up all the goods there is in stock." (114). She has more sense about business then he does, but he gets to be in control of all their money. Today, women have more of a say in what goes on with the financial part of the family as well as with who they are going to

If I leave a tip at an evening party, my father gives up cigars for a week. This is how it has been for twenty two years. Somewhere in Poland we had a farmstead. I’ve never seen it. It was the source of everything; the uniform, tuition, money for theatre tickets, entry fees for exams, and duel fee” (Embers 45). Konrad could have been jealous and envy Henrik’s financial status, but he still held to his friendship. Sometimes people make friends with others who have something they lack. This could be evident that Konrad is only friends with Henrik because he has wealth, while Henrik could be friends with Konrad because of his understanding of Music. Relationships could be built on a foundation of needs to fill in missing parts of one’s life, even if it is below the surface and unnoticed by the couple.

He will avoid buying clothes for himself so his children are able to have new clothes, and thus are not to seem impoverished and have his family face societal criticism. (20) The text clearly displays the father as a man who puts the needs of his family above all, however, in this he makes missteps and causes a disastrous financial pitfall. His spending is close to erratic, but shows love as his reasoning for this. When the father wins the ten-thousand dollars off the scratch-off, he discusses with his wife what to with it, and in this he turns down a possibility to pay off debts and allow a more secure financial position to give Lilly a splendid birthday. (15) All in all, this irrational fiscal behavior is the unfortunate side-effect of his drive to achieve a life of comfort and luxury for his family, and this is most clearly displayed in the Semplica Girls. The father purchases the Semplica Girls not out of interest for himself, but to help his daughter Lilly’s social perception, as they want her to “enter high school as confident young woman, feeling her family as good/affluent as any other family”. (24) He glances over the morality and the frivolous nature of the purchase to aid his daughter’s self-development.

Tom Walker is parsimony known as stingy. Tom Walker left a great part of unfinished and unfurnished of parsimony (237). Tom was a stern supervisor and censurer and believe every credit belongs to himself. “Let us get hold of the property’’, said he consolingly to himself, ‘’ and we will endeavor to do without the woman’’ (234). Tom was the universal friend of the needy and acted like a ‘’ friend in need’’, that is to say, he always exacted good pay and good security (236). Tom Walker trick people with their belongings by getting other people riches.

“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)

After telling the exciting news of the family moving into their own house, Walter was furiated. Mama found Walter half drunk at the bar later that day, from the aggravation and negative energy the family gave off on him earlier that day. Walter and Mama have a conversation at the bar, and Mama is willing to give him 6,500 dollars and she ask him to promise her he will put half away in the bank for Beneatha's education, giving Walter the rest toward his business partnership. At this part of the book Walter saw that Mama had trusted Walter with the money his father had worked so hard for all of his life. He promised Mama that he would not let her down. Knowing Walter being so tempted by his dream of the liquor business, he finally had a decent amount of money to put him and his family into a good position. Walter no thought in the mind, puts the full 6,500 dollars towards the liquor business leaving nothing for Beneatha. Walter being so greedy, thought he knew what was best, and yet he is running into a bigger problem he would had never

The school has a community chest where the parents donate money for the charity. Richard also want to donate money to that charity with the money that he earned from mending the shoes and selling papers, but he wanted that money to be more then what Helene’s dad was going to give to the chest. It was that bad day where the teacher has to collect money for the charity by calling out students name, but she did not call Richard’s name from the list and tried to shut him up by telling him in front of the whole class that they were “collecting this money for you and your kind” (Gregory) and then everyone get to know that Richard doesn’t have a father. It got fear and shame to him and he saw Helene crying for him so he felt much shame and began to cry as well. Not only he did not return to school after, but he also began to see shame everywhere from the welfare jacket he wear and rotten fruit he get from the local grocery store and therefore this event took him about more than twenty years to get over the shame he experienced that day in front of

One reason Francis is mired in abject circumstances is because of his laissez-faire attitude with money. One example of this laid-back attitude towards spending money occurs when Francis goes home after twenty-two years and receives ten dollars from his son, Billy. Knowing Francis, this ten dollars would not last long nor would the purchase be wise. He would not spend it after careful consideration to survive but would throw it away on a thoughtless splurge on the unnecessary. Francis does not disappoint by spending most of

Money plays a huge part in this story. Hester, the mother, is obsessed with having more and more money. She lives the life of a woman with money, never allowing anyone to see past the family's small income, "The mother had a small income, and the father had a

To begin, I will be discussing money, one of the many themes in “The Living is Easy” by Dorothy West. This book is about a woman named Cleo, who grew up in an upper-class African American family. Cleo was always into the business world ever since she was a little girl. She moved to Boston and married Bart Judson also known as “The black banana king.” They have one daughter named Judy. Bart owned business that he transported bananas. He was a very productive and wealthy man, but when things took a turn for the worst, he had lost all his money leaving Cleo with the remains of it. Their marriage was solely based on money, while Cleo sisters, Charity, Lily, and Serena had it differently. They loved their husbands, so much that money was not a necessary object, and no money was involved. The sisters had visited Cleo without their spouses for most of the book making their mindsets change as well as their attitudes towards their husbands. This mindset has shown the many problems with Bart Judson’s money and revealed how careless the characters can be.

Kenneth thinks “himself vastly instructed in the manner in which the Old Man, being rich, became richer” (Austin, 174), and is trying to follow that method toward gaining money and power. However, Kenneth is misguided, because “he was not, in any light that he could see the situation, on the way to becoming rich himself” (Austin, 174), even after a couple of years of working for the Rickard company. What Kenneth does not realize is that the company is not interested in his well-being and is using his labor instead of helping him to succeed like the “Old Man” did. Anne is the one who understands what the working class needs to do to survive, which is organize against the upper class rather than working with them and joining their companies, which are only trying to exploit the land. Anne is shown as being passionate and independent, but people like Kenneth just want her to stay in her place because she is a

As well as, the capitalism system and the form of money economy are essential themes in the play. Miller argues the absurd false ideas of both father and sons which drive Willy into death (Clark 631-35).