Money Always Talks

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Money Always Talks by Mind Map: Money Always Talks

1. Occassion

1.1. Answer

1.1.1. New York, summer, Gin Lane

1.2. Quote(s) from the article that supports your claim

1.2.1. "After passing through an upscale area of homes that stood discretely apart, we came to the mythic Gin Lane."

1.3. Explanation

1.3.1. Gin Lane is an upper class neighborhood with that houses became outright baronial, the driveways elongated and the hedges meticulously clipped.

2. Action

2.1. Answer

2.1.1. Daphne lost her wealth

2.2. Quote(s) from the article that supports your claim

2.2.1. "— that unlike those who claim to be immune to money’s seductions, I most decidedly am not." "Although the family I come from is fairly wealthy (by pre-hedge-fund standards), my daughter wanted to know why I hadn’t managed to inherit a summer place of my own." "What can I say? Money — the majestic uses to which this money had been put — made us feel like nouveaux pauvres,"

2.3. Explanation

2.3.1. Daphne, unable to uphold her inherited wealth, is subjected to the majestic allure of money causing her to lose her fortune.

3. Points

3.1. Answer

3.1.1. The personality and judgement put forth by wealthy people

3.2. Quote(s) from the article that support your claim

3.2.1. "not only because they have more money but also because they elicit such an oxymoronic barrage of responses. They’re worse, and they’re better, reviled and adulated. They stir up envy, and they invite respect."

3.3. Explanation

3.3.1. Wealthy people depict a certain hierarchy towards lower class, people they view below their values.

4. Speaker

4.1. Answer

4.1.1. Author, Daphne Merkin

4.2. Quote(s) from the article that supports your claim

4.2.1. "At the tail end of the summer, I happened to stay with my teenage daughter at the rented house of friends in Southampton."

4.3. Explanation

4.3.1. The use of the word "I" indicates the author is the speaker.

5. Tone

5.1. Answer

5.1.1. The rich are different

5.2. Quote(s) from the article that supports your claim

5.2.1. "So, as it turns out, Ernest Hemingway was wrong, and F. Scott Fitzgerald was right: The rich are different,"

5.3. Explanation

5.3.1. Daphne describes the rich as, "worse, but they're better".