He used all his money on booze. And he even admitted, “I’m not always good at staying sober.” In “Cathedral” the alcohol symbolizes public status and class. Drinking scotch wasn’t for the poor. Scotch is a “Rich Man’s Drink”. You imagine being in a nice house, drinking a very well-aged bottle of expensive scotch.
TRANSPORTATION IN PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Hack Chaise Curricle The Curricle was the vehicle of the elite. It was fast and often used in high class racing. In chapter 44, Mr Dacy’s uses of a Curricle shows him to be a rich and dashing young man. A hack chaise is the victorian equivalent to a taxi. As upkeep of horses and the carriage where expensive and so not all high class families could afford them.
The play starts with the entire Birling Family sitting around having drinks to celebrate the daughter Sheila’s engagement to a wealthy businessman named Gerald. The play delivers a serious message about society and it revolves around the questioning of Eva Smith’s death and how everyone is partly to blame. Mr Birling and Sheila respond to the inspector in very different ways and Priestley clearly wants the audience to consider their outlook and perhaps question their own choices in life. As the play progresses, we realise that everybody is partly to blame for the tragic suicide of Eva Smith. However Mr and Mrs Birling never actually do take the blame and keep making excuses for their actions.
Then Charles Foster Kane died alone. He was destroyed by a lust for power by too much ambition. Kane once told Thatcher years before money led to his downfall: “If I hadn’t been rich, I might have been a really great man.” Although, he was flawed and self-serving, Kane was a very strong man who had power to control American citizens’ thoughts and very wealthy to live in a giant house that looks like a castle with numerous servants, ridiculously expensive statues, and a private zoo. Even when he was a child, Kane was a strong
Malcolm goes ahead and moves to Harlem, NY. Malcolm learned the ways of Harlem, and went out most nights to dance, drink, and smoke marijuana. Malcolm moved to a rooming house ran by prostitutes. He learned a lot about the psychology of men from the prostitutes, but it eventually came to an end when he referred and undercover military agent to a prostitute, and had the hostel closed. 
 Malcolm lost his job and home, and began dealing marijuana to jazz players with his partner Sammy the Pimp.
Eddie felt humiliated about where she was raised, she didn't want to be associated with the "scandals" that belonged to the shacks north of the creek. She believed that, since she grew up in the shacks, she was worth less than the next person. Edith was embarrassed by her drunken father, even though none of his actions were ever her fault. Her mother, a "hallelujah-shouting fool" who preached, but never actually went to church, was also a huge contributor to the way Eddie felt. With people tormenting her about her cousins who were teen moms, or her father who made a fool of his drunken self in public, the poor girl felt like nothing more than dirt, and she wanted to be thought of as flawless and beautiful.
The Great Gatsby is a book based on two rich areas: West egg and East egg. Jay Gatsby just wanted money and wealth because he thought he can buy everything in this world including Love. All of Jay Gatsby’s wealth was a plan so that he can attract Daisy towards himself. Gatsby has done illegal work and committed crime to achieve his success. Gatsby throws parties at his mansion and anyone can attend and has servants to do things for him and others.
We can see that Curley’s wife is portrayed by Steinbeck as a ‘tart’ in the beginning of the book, she is not cared for or liked by many of the men on the ranch at all as she irritates them and they think that she is not loyal towards Curley. However, by the end of the book the reader feels sorry for her as we see deeper inside her and see how lonely she is, she only has the image of a tart because she is so alone and the only way she knows to make friends is by being a flirtatious person. The first mention of Curley’s wife is in chapter 2 when George and ‘the swamper’ are talking about her. They say that she is ‘Purty ... but- well-she got the eye’. They mean that she is always looking and flirting with other men.
He could feel like he’s in unequal marriage, where George has all the responsibilities. Curley’s Wife is definitely no happy and very lonely since she is living in her father-in-laws house. She thinks she has missed her opportunities in life by living with Curley and a ‘band of lonely men’. She even tries to get a bit of companionship by flirting and talking with the men on the ranch but when she does is comes back on her horribly. No one on the ranch can get the key to not being lonely; the men on the ranch use all their money on the brothel every Saturday night but it doesn’t stop them being lonely, Lennie and George think that having their own place would solve ‘everything’.
The women in the novel are too shallow for our sympathy or admiration A character that can be described as being wholly shallow is Myrtle. We learn that she ‘lay down and cried’ after finding out her husband Wilson ‘borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in.’ Myrtle is distraught after finding out her husband is not rich nor a ‘gentleman’, as he made little effort on their wedding day. In the broader scheme of things, this should not matter; however Myrtle seems fixated on this and concludes from this one situation that their marriage is doomed. The suit can be seen as being representative of Wilson – he will always be reliant on others to survive in his sorrowful world, as seen when Wilson is close to begging Tom not to sell the car elsewhere. Myrtle despises