Living in a dream from hell

A long time ago we cried over the fact that the money tree was in fact just a normal tree given a  deceiving name; money doesn't grow on trees. Instead, according to The Diamond As Big As The Ritz by Fitzgerald if you're lucky enough, you might just stumble upon a diamond the size of  "the Ritz-Carlton Hotel" (Fitzgerald 78). The rhetoric use of symbolism of colors and the name itself is used to convey that the root of corruption is in fact wealth. Wealth comes in many forms: love, greed, and the most obvious, dollar bills. This particular satire also uses irony to illustrate how wealth and corruption go hand-in-hand as its not a "once upon a time" a man found a way to escape reality and lived happily ever after, more like I'm-gonna-die-since-I-was-exposed-to-these-unrealistic-riches. With wealth comes a great power of superiority, unfortunately the diamond represents obstruction from reality. It is true that in today's world there are many flaws, but it is also true that living too deeply in a dream can also hinder an individual.

The Washington family live in a place full of pink elephants and where everyone is deemed as inferior. They live to shower in their riches, but at the same time due to their isolation, they are poor in the sense that they do not comprehend what reality even is. Due to a disconnection from the rest of the world, their thought process is much different. To explain, any sane person would agree that murdering people for his/her benefit is NOT okay, but Kismine and her family seem to view this as alright. They think that it would be only fair that they should too get as much pleasure as possible. 

At the end of this short story, the location of the Washington's secret house is found out and bombed by planes. At this point having lost everything, Braddock tries to bribe God saying that he will give him a cathedral in return for clearing the havoc. Unfortunately, Braddock is no Moses and was declined.