This paper discusses three literary works from three separate genres that reveal similar thematic content about money from
highly divergent points of view. The paper states that in de Maupassant's short story, "The Diamond Necklace," the the story is about money and how
having it or not having it can become the central focus of a life. The author believes that in "The Little Foxe"s, Lillian Hellman personifies the opposing
values of destructive greed versus human caring. The author continues that Robert Frost's poem, "The Death of the Hired Man," is not about grasping greed but about poverty and human values.