driven

A detailed Summary of driven

Any animal with teeth can bite. What separates a man from an animal? In McTeague by

Frank Norris, each character's life is driven by a power from within. An instinct that each are

unable to control. In a resourceful setting of San Francisco, where Norris states that "Things can

happen'" the lives of these unfortunate souls take turns demonstrating their true views. Ironically

the characters are paralleled each, enabling greed, dominance, and subjection to decipher the core

beasts that consume and butcher their lives.

"There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."

(Frank Buchman). The skeleton of each character attempts to deter from the theme--each

character though given a solitary description are ironically precisely or circuitously driven by

their appetite for riches, breaking the boundaries set by their social classes, showing each one to

be paralleled in thoughts as one compelled by avarice. The first secondary character we are

introduced to is Marcus Schouler, McTeague's "one intimate friend", who gives away his cousin

Trina to McTeague, only to fall in love with her once she is rich. Maria Macapa "hada flying

interior of the trunk, the gold knives and forks--each whetting the desire of the unquenchable

possessed by money and riches, stashing, nagging, needing, like a lost man, who finds his ecstasy

belief. As he claims her to be his own excitement builds and he unleashes his true sensations.

tormenting him to the point of no return, showing the reader his distorted fantasies- a sick and

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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

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