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In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby amassed a fortune in bootlegging. He flaunted his wealth in a very public way to woo Daisy. George Babbitt, the title character in Sinclair Lewis’ novel, is a middle-aged man, “nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people can afford to pay.” More recently, Jane Smiley’s Good Faith follows the scheme of two partners in “an investment venture so complex that no one may ever understand it.” There are three similar characters in Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities.

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