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=Consumerism in  Ameica =

"They were careless people....they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made" (Fitzgerald, 179).





'Her voice is full of money,' he said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money-- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it... High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl..." -The Great Gatsby, F. Sctt Fitzgerald, p. 120