Consider Fitzgerald's opinion on wealth as expressed in other works, specifically The Great Gatsby and " Babylon Revisited." Are the views expressed in those works consistent with those expressed here in "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"?.How does John feel about wealth at the end of the story as compared to at its start?.Wealth can be its own prison, the narrative argues, and blindly chasing it dehumanizes its pursuers and devalues human life. The detrimental consequences of such an obsession are made clear. Horrible things are done in the name of wealth, including imprisonment and murder, and these actions are written off as natural consequences of success and expansion. Wealth has replaced religion men worship at the altar of diamonds and gold.
Wealth is the object of scrutinizing social satire in "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz." In this story, America is a country obsessed with wealth to a gaudy, destructive, and shameful degree.
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