A Fairy TAIL(of a vicious and fire breathing animal): Beware or this so called fairy TAIL could harm you too!

    Once upon a time, there was a sweet girl that fell in love with a charming young man; their families knew their children were right for each other and they lived happily ever after.  The End.

    Everyone has heard these perfect fairy tales, but I wonder if there is more to these stories than is on the surface.  The three evil step sisters are so tied up in their wealth that they couldn’t find love and Snow White is forced to run away from all of the evil where she grew up, a place that is infested with wealth almost as large and absurd and as a pink elephant.  Similar to these stories, wealth as a means of happiness causes the Washington family, in “The Diamond As Big As The Ritz” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, an abundance of trouble.  In fact most of the family loses their lives and even kills their own guests!  Although Moses was able to part the Red Sea, the Washington family couldn’t even differentiate between the contrasting ideas of wealth and happiness so the two could live in harmony with each other.  Even today, it seems as if obtaining money and a “happily ever after” have an enormous disconnect.  The rhetoric that F. Scott Fitzgerald uses such as the symbol of a diamond with no flaws, ironically having no worth if it were to be discovered, reveal the underlying theme in the story: the amount of joy you get out of living is not measured by materiality.  Although these stories point out the harsh reality of our society ruled by money, it is possible that they can change the fate of America.  While reading a story about a “diamond as big as the Ritz”, I knew that the story wasn’t far off.  When people start realize how dysfunctional it is to govern the quality of life by how much they own, the “American dream” might become something completely different.