The Short Story, Paper

With the stranger dead, the people of the community help themselves to his cheques. Money begins to exchange hands as goods are bought and deals are made. The progress of economic development comes to the village. No one is afraid to dig up the money that they have saved because as soon as the cheques are cashed there will be no worries, and the town can continue to "prosper." But as every man meditates on their "two of these excellent billets," they begin to feel that "they were too rich to speak to each other" (71, 72). Conflict grows between one-time friends as they argue over what is to be bought and sold. Greed has come to town with the artist and his witch's money.

In the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker”, the author shows greed by the main character selling his soul for a large treasure, being a cheap and greedy moneylender, and the lack of the main character and his wife sharing the wealth between each other in order to show that people will do anything for money and become rich.

The man realizes that the more money he has, the more problems it brings and he expresses his desire to literally “Take that money watch it burn” (Line 45). The persona of the story is a young man who seeks refuge

     Walter Lee’s investment dream also stunk “like rotten meat.” Like meat, the dream was very appetizing. In Walter Lee’s eyes, nothing could go wrong, it was a smart investment that would definitely be profitable. Not once did the thought that Willy Harris might run away with the money ever cross his mind. “Walter: Yeah. You see, this little liquor store we got in mind cost seventy-five thousand and we figured the initial investment on the place be 'bout thirty thousand, see. That be ten thousand each. Course, there's a couple of hundred you got to pay so's you don't spend your life just waiting for them clowns to let your license get approved...” But the dream began to rot, and lose composure. He wasted all the money and his dream became impossible.

The paperhanger is a talented con artist. Working for Dr. Jamahl and his wife is one of the few jobs he has, because that is just the cover to what he does to women. The vanishment of the doctor’s daughter brings mystery to how she just so happened to disappear, bringing fury to those who search for her body. The story enhances enticing irony, vivid imagery, and alluring foreshadow as to what really happened to Zeineb, the child who is missing.

“Compare/contrast Faulkner’s ‘Dry September’ with ‘A rose for Emily’ in terms of writing style and character presentation.”

“The Rocking-Horse Winner” is a short story by D. H. Lawrence in which he creates a criticism of the modernized world’s admiration and desire for material objects. It was published in Harper’s Bazaar magazine in 1926 for the first time (E-Notes). The story’s main character, Hester, is a beautiful woman who is completely consumed by the idea of possession, and so she loses out on the love of family and the happiness of life. Her son, Paul, also learns to love wealth because of his negligent mother, constantly hearing the “whispers” of empty pockets in their home. D. H. Lawrence uses the relationship between Paul and Hester and their money in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” to show the shortcomings

Samuel put down the Sun Newspaper, and removed his glasses with a satisfying smile on the corner of his mouth. More and more population are flooding to New York. It is not easy in New York City, where many people become merchants, and it is quite competitive. Thanks to the Erie Canal, his importing business has been constantly growing. He needs to make this investment. Samuel worked quite hard to become this successful in the hardware merchant business. From metal, nails, screws, to farm implements, he sells anything that earns a copper. Mr. Duncan saved every dime he could get (everyday life in 1800s).

A family is supposed to work together through their problems. Mama tries to come up with a solution to make everyone happy because nothing is as precious to her as seeing her family worry-free. She decides to put a down payment of thirty-five hundred on a house while giving Walter sixty-five hundred to split between him and his sister. Mama’s only rule is that he put all that money in the bank. At this moment, the Younger family saw some light at the end of this dark tunnel.

In the short story "The Rocking Horse-Winner," D. H. Lawrence paints the picture of an upper class family corrupted by greed. The short story illustrates the way people allow money to control their lives by emphasizing how the mother’s greed for money and her behavior with her children batters their relationship. The more money the family has, the more money the family seems to need. Greed seems to overcome the entire family consuming and corrupting even the young boy to suppress the cries of the house for more money.

The capitalist and the not capitalism or communism are the 2 types of economic system. The capitalist is a free market that gives a freedom to people to be wealthier without any help, however, the noncapitalist is a government rule the people and people don’t have freedom. To be successful in life people should take a risk by betting or investing mortgages, investments, funds, or other products. The non-fiction book name The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is written by Michael Lewis is about the subprime of mortgage and bond, and the work o f people like, Bear Stearns, Deutsche bank and Steve Eisman of front point partner believes that the housing bubble will be break apart and the wall will be in debt. However, the

A running theme in this story, congruent with the first naturalistic assumption of the struggle for survival, is the desire for wealth and the eventual greed spawned from this consuming desire. Mac’s girlfriend at the time, and later his wife, Trina, won $5000 in a lottery, but was very frugal with her winnings. Mac, who was never accustomed to wealth or high society, found this very frustrating and after the loss of his business, “every hour the question of money came up” (Norris, 127). He was unrelenting in his search for money. To McTeague, wealth equaled power and success. Norris exemplifies the dangers of greed and how it can get the best of you when McTeague’s anger and frustration at Trina with his financial situation boils over, “Miser, nasty little old miser. You’re worse than old Zerkow, always nagging about money, money, and you got five thousand dollars. You got more, an’ you live in that stinking hole of a room, and you won’t drink any decent beer” (Norris, 135).

He begins his day by calling a friend that works at one of the offshore facilities in a subsidiary company that is owned by his father’s global financial conglomerate known as Gullivers’ Financial. They talk for about an hour on the embezzling scheme they have been working on, and the plans for it in the coming year. Ron has been overseeing and underwriting for this subsidiary his friend works at, that finances coffee farmers in Panama, and buys other financing firms. When this subsidiary was purchased by Gullivers’ Financial a year and a half ago, one of the best decisions Ron has made for Gullivers’ Financial, he also bought a mansion of similar size to the one he has back in New York, down in Panama, since he had an excuse to travel there. Which is when he ran into his friend and started this embezzling scheme, where Ron takes the money from the budget of the subsidiary and instead of hedging with it for the bank he has been investing it speculatively in the futures options commodity market for coffee. This has resulted in him paying off his Panama mansion in a month and a half, and accumulating wealth of nearly $500

The Countryman was gaining money faster than he could ever imagine, but somehow he craved more money at an even quicker pace. His greed for wealth engulfed him in one swift motion and he knew it was unshakeable.

Suicide mention near the end of the story, please do not read if you are not ok with things like that.