The acquisition of wealth can greatly affect one's future. Money determines where a person is able to live, what school they attend and countless other factors. American literature reflects the population's beliefs in what money can bring to its owner. For instance in a typical American fairy tale the hero may be poor at the beginning but once he succeeds he becomes rich and lives happily ever after. During the twenties and thirties authors who were disillusioned by what wealth brought wrote stories about corruption by money. In Death of a Salesman, The Old Man and the Sea, Of Mice and Men, and The Great Gatsby money plays a part in the demise of one or all of th

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