Money Always Talks

1. Occassion

1.1. Answer

1.1.1. New york 2007

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

1.2.1. The house is located on a quiet, leafy side street on the distinctly wrong end of town.

1.3. Explanation

1.3.1. They said they were going to the beach

2. Action

2.1. Answer

2.1.1. The mother spends money to impress the rich

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

2.2.1. I stopped to purchase two cashmere sweaters at almost $500 a pop, which I rationalized would see me through the globally warmed winter ahead.

2.3. Explanation

2.3.1. The mother felt vonrable about herself in the rich neighborhood

3. Points

3.1. Answer

3.1.1. She buys more things when shes around the rich then when she isn't

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

3.2.1. My daughter and I looked on goggle-eyed at the exclusionary quality of it all. Money may buy lots of toys, but perhaps the most crucial thing it buys is privacy — refuge from the masses (and mass transportation).

3.3. Explanation

3.3.1. Someone shouldn't have to spend money to be with other people or too look like them

4. Speaker

4.1. Answer

4.1.1. Daphne Merkin is the narrator of this article.

4.2. Quote(s)

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 speaker uses first person pronouns

5. Tone

5.1. Answer

5.1.1. To feel like you shouldnt have to try to impress anyone to get onto a certain group

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, not only because they have more money but also because they elicit such an oxymoronic barrage of responses.

5.3. Explanation

5.3.1. She realizes her mistake in spending all that money now