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Greed

English
September 25, 2005

Greed
Greed can be any person's eventual downfall. Greed does not discriminate between race, wealth, age or sex. According to Webster's Dictionary, Greed means "excessive desire, especially for wealth". The identified characters will have their lives evaluated, and how greed has caused them to suffer a great downfall. The stories I have derived the characters from are "A Rose for Emily", "Good Country People", "Story of An Hour", "The Necklace" and "Godfather Grimm".
In "A Rose for Emily" Miss Emily Grierson grows to be extremely selfish and covetous after her father dies. Her greed begins to surface when she denies her fathers death, and refuses that he be buried for three days for fear of losing him. Emily has soon fallen in love with a "Yankee" by the name of Homer Barron, and fears that he may someday leave her. Due to her insecurity, she poison's her love interest so he that he will never have the opportunity to part from her.......


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Approximate Pages: 8 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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