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Greed

Greed
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s’ “A Diamond as Big as the Ritz” and Oliver Stone’s film “Wall Street”, similar themes are repeated by main characters depicted in these works. The characterization of Braddock Washington, and Gordon Gekko reflect how greed, materialism, and corruption lead to their eventual downfall. The only difference between these two characters is that Gordon Gekko does not lose his physical life as a consequence to his greed.
In “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, Braddock Washington’s family rises to extraordinary unprecedented wealth after Fitz-Norman Washington, leads him to his family’s fortune when a squirrel presents him with a one hundred thousand dollar diamond. He immediately betrays his team of black men by telling them that he has accidentally found a mine full of rhinestones. His intention was to “take out land in their names and start a sheep and cattle ranch” (Fitzgerald 193). Not wanting to share in his discovery,......


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