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Saturday, March 3, 2012
Wealth
What constitutes true wealth in the book? The Hamiltons and the Trasks are most explicitly differentiated by their relationship to money: though Sam Hamilton works hard he accumulates little, while Adam Trask moons and mourns and lives off the money acquired by his father. Think of different times that money is sought after or rejected by characters (such as Will Hamilton and Cal Trask) and the role that it plays to help and hinder them in realizing their dreams. Does the quest for money ever obscure deeper desires?
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The Hamilton's didn't have wealth but they seemed happy and secure for the most part. The Trask's had money but didn't really use it to impart alot of good. And in the financial idea with the lettuce, Adam lost most of his money. He wasn't really sad about it because he had done something he believed in and took a chance. Will Hamilton seemed always trying to make a buck and getting in on schemes like selling a car to Adam that he really didn't need. He always seem to come out making money. Cal worked with him to make alot of money as he wanted to get his father's wealth back for him and that ended up backfiring in his face. I think in several cases money was made deep down inside to to earn love, respect, and security.
The Hamiltons are certainly “wealthier” than the Trasks because they worked for what they had. You value more the things that you work for and because they never had enough material wealth they found joy in family. Sometimes people are well enough off to be comfortable and forget that there is more to life than comfort...like Will Hamilton who totally missed the mark.
Another example where material wealth was confused for happiness was Cal’s attempt to buy his father’s love with money. I still believe that what he did was out of pure love. I will not say it was totally selfless since he admitted to trying to buy his father’s love but if Adam could have seen down deeper he would have seen how much Cal loved him. On the surface though it was just money and Adam wanted the pride in his son that he felt for Aron, who in my opinion didn’t really earn that approval and didn’t even seem to be aware of it or care about it.
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