Questions about "Money"

Gentle Readers,

Our discussion of  "Vital Ideas: Money" on Monday, July 23rd, will consist of a series of comparison questions of the following selections:

• Henry David Thoreau's "Economy" and Karl Marx's "The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society"
• John Cheever's "The Housebreaker of Heartbreak Hill" and "Barbara Ehrenreich's "Selling in Minnesota"
• Harriet Jacob's "New Master and Mistress" and Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded Six-Bits"
• Theodore Drieser's "Sister Carrie" (selection) and Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club" (selection)
• Thoreau and the Katy Lederer poem "The Heaven-Sent Leaf"
• Paco Underhill's "Sex and the Mall" and the Theodore Dreiser selection.

For further details see p. 149 in the "Money" book.

Have at it and have fun!