In this story, the author is trying to tell the reader that money does not always make people happy. At the beginning of the story Ivan and his wife care very much for each other. Even though they only make twelve hundred a year they are still happy with what they have. When they found out that they won things started to take a turn. They begin to think of all of the possibilities that could happen between them. Then they start to question their relationship. In the story it says that he looked at his wife in hatred. She looks at him the same way too. This means that they figure out that they do not love each other anymore. Since money has been an issue with them they decided to take that risk and try to win more money. But they found out that
