“Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.”
–Letter, Aug. 1936, to Ernest Hemingway


For this weeks assignment I decided talk about one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous quote about " riches." To me this quote has a very strong meaning to many of people today. In life there will be unfortunate people and fortunate people, but that means nothing. You must carry a good personality and always have interest in what people have to say to you.
Throughout my life I have noticed that the " lower class" of people always seem to be nice and willing to help you when help is needed. They always carry hope, even though they are in tough times. They try to benefit from everything they do and pray that one day they can have a home or a nice family to live with. In America today a " recession" has hit and many are trying to scurry money together. What many need to do is hold their heads high and be thankful we are who we are. Fitzgerald I think stresses that in this quote because he states that you can basically have all the money in the world, but if your personally is poor you will get no where in life.
As for the " upper class" of people who are always snobby and think they are "king's of the world" need to realize that it is one thing to have money, but your character is the main attraction upon yourself. In my opinion, Fitzgerald tries to stress this to these people hoping one day they will be a better person inside. The "charm" can be allot of things such as donations and helping out the lower class. They can be nice if they want to, its just that the " greed" can sometimes overcome them.