Weight of Wealth
... Since society maintains such high expectations in regard to the implication of wealth, trends toward judgmental behavior is anything but uncommon. ... Maureen is depicted as a child who gains respect through her money and wealth, accepting other people’s assumptions that she is superior to the crowd. ... In light of Pecola’s standpoint of her wealth and beauty, she seeks refuge from a man named Soaphead Church, a light-skinned West Indian who declares himself as a “Reader, Adviser, and Interpreter of Dreams” (165). ... When society puts an immense amount of emphasis on the amount of wealth of an individual, people tend to lean towards asserting stern assumptions in regards to that individual.