Money+Doesn't+Buy+Love+and+Happiness

MONEY DOESN'T BUY LOVE AND HAPPINESS. __**Definition**__: There are other ways to be happy without having lots of money. Its the finer things in life that are more important than money. Just because you have money doesn't mean that you are happy.

__**Quotations**__: "I felt like I'd lost Fag forever, that there wasn't a person there anymore; just clothes and money and alcohol. I felt like she'd died. And all that was left was a cardboard cutout of Princess Elizabeth. Or Lauren Bacall."

__**Symbols/Motifs**__: -State housing / Cashmere -Look at Cashmere as if life would be perfect but when Fag gets that life she discovers it's not what it seems, like a shell on the outside. - Magazines: Gives them the impression that money equals happiness and so they think that it does

__**Setting**__: Because they live in such bad surroundings as children, the grew up thinking money will make them happy. Cashmere - A fantasy place, a life they don't have but can only dream of. Ginnie doesn't have a nice house when she is older but she is still happy and enjoying life.

__**Characters**__: FAG - Marries into money but doesn't love her husband and isn't happy. - Loses the meaning in her life when she gets money. - Looks down on Ginnie and becomes shallow, like the Cashmere people. - Takes things for granted and looses the respect of those she once loved. - Snobs her family and is embarrassed of them - More interested in being successful than family life - Does love her husband but not as much as Ginne love Jaz. GINNIE - Stay dirt poor, has 3 children and a husband, yet she is still happy. - She is better off than Fag, married for love not money. She has people to share a good life with. - Accepts that she is poor and doesn't take things for granted, which makes her happier. RODDIE - Has alot of money but doesn't use it as he is happier without it. MARGARET - Resigns to the fact that she has no money and realizes she doesn't need it to feel content by the end of the novel.