Imagine money destroying someone as heroin does to people ─ once they get a taste, they can’t give it up. In many of F Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories, he expatiates in his writing what materialism can do to themselves or people around them. The short stories show hardships the protagonist faces when money gets involved. Fitzgerald addresses when people compare their wealth, one gets endangered for it. He shows that when people are jealous of money, and the way it is earned, impacts relationships of the protagonist. Furthermore, he also writes about how the protagonist is envious of the people around them, because they are wealthy. F Scott Fitzgerald uses his writing to show how materialism corrupts and severs people in “A Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, “Babylon Revisited”, and “The Freshest Boy.”
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“Fitzgerald’s most enduring theme: how a young man is destroyed by the women he loves” (“Diamond” 691). The protagonist, Unger, is an example how Fitzgerald indicates the power money has over love. When Unger and his love escape the residence from which he was about to be killed on, they realize that they have run out with rhinestones that have no value when it was supposed to be diamonds (“Diamond” 691). Unger valued the diamonds more than death and would have rather been without his love than to be poor, even though they are free they did not come out with any riches. While Kasmine and Unger are running, airplanes invade the estate. As the all of this is happening, Kasmine’s father tries to give God a gem to make the chaos go away, but declines (“Diamond” 691-692). Kasmine’s father is more concerned with what is happening with his estate rather than his family while the attack is
“Fitzgerald’s most enduring theme: how a young man is destroyed by the women he loves” (“Diamond” 691). The protagonist, Unger, is an example how Fitzgerald indicates the power money has over love. When Unger and his love escape the residence from which he was about to be killed on, they realize that they have run out with rhinestones that have no value when it was supposed to be diamonds (“Diamond” 691). Unger valued the diamonds more than death and would have rather been without his love than to be poor, even though they are free they did not come out with any riches. While Kasmine and Unger are running, airplanes invade the estate. As the all of this is happening, Kasmine’s father tries to give God a gem to make the chaos go away, but declines (“Diamond” 691-692). Kasmine’s father is more concerned with what is happening with his estate rather than his family while the attack is