In the short story Paper by Catherine Lim greed is portrayed through the means of gluttony, expectations, and jealousy. To start off, Tay Soon and his wife Yee Lian finally have enough money for the down payment of their dream home forty-eight thousand dollars to be exact, but with their desire for excess money Yee Lian says to Tay, “The quotations for stocks and shares were climbing the charts, might we not do anything about this?” (LIM 8). The gluttony Yee Lian and Tay Soon have for money materializes as they are unsatisfied with what they have and want more money making them greedy through gluttony because they are facing over indulgence. Nonetheless, they have enough money for their new house, yet they purchase shares in NBE, Far East Mart, and OHTE…show more content… Secondly, the expectation Yee Lian has with the stock market displays her greed because she thinks the stocks are benefiting all. Yee Lian thinks her sister should not sell her stocks. After the stock market crash the text states, “Yee Lian was afraid and she ran sobbing to her sister who never failed to remind her curtly that all her savings were gone too, simply because when she wanted to sell, Yee Lian advised her not to” (LIM 10). Furthermore, Yee Lian’s greed results in her sister losing everything she places in the stocks because Lian’s greed for money is blinded with the probability of stocks going up or down and she gives information she expects to happen without any guarantee. Yee Lian’s friend suggests for her to place money in OHTE and West Parks shares because she thinks they will go over forty dollars and Yee Lian does with her husband. The stocks crash and the couple have less than they started off with. Yee Lian blames her friend for the bad advice and claims, “She’s always been jealous of me- ever since she knew we were going to build a house grander than hers” (LIM
