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

squirrel an' let em go," is introduced as a

The cumbersome and docile qualities of McTeague cause the reader to imagine him as a

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

Though somehow each were separate, all were driven by their greedy desires and compulsive

driven Trina's vulnerability, her lying there "conquered and subdued" (133).

only over the house but also over McTeague. The crash comes when McTeague loses his job and

animal will prescribe after his master has deprived him of his basic necessities. The brute is

strength, and intellect, all adding imagery to his character, each burying the true inner "brute."

simple puppet, implying his helplessness and submissiveness to be the overall characteristics he

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Approximate Word count = 1334
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)