Any animal with teeth can bite. What separates a man from an animal? In McTeague by
             Frank Norris, each character's life is driven by a power from within. An instinct that each are
             unable to control. In a resourceful setting of San Francisco, where Norris states that "Things can
             happen'" the lives of these unfortunate souls take turns demonstrating their true views. Ironically
             the characters are paralleled each, enabling greed, dominance, and subjection to decipher the core
             beasts that consume and butcher their lives.
             "There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."
             (Frank Buchman). The skeleton of each character attempts to deter from the theme–-each
             character though given a solitary description are ironically precisely or circuitously driven by
             their appetite for riches, breaking the boundaries set by their social classes, showing each one to
             be paralleled in thoughts as one compelled by avarice. The first secondary character we are
             introduced to is Marcus Schouler, McTeague's "one intimate friend", who gives away his cousin
             Trina to McTeague, only to fall in love with her once she is rich. Maria Macapa "hada flying
             squirrel an' let em go," is introduced as a "greaser" who is "queer in the head"(14). The reader
             sees this character spawn intense images throughout the story, her delicious gold plates, the
             interior of the trunk, the gold knives and forks–-each whetting the desire of the unquenchable
             Zerkow. She uses his hunger to drive her to steal one of the "tapes" of gold from McTeague's
             dentist office. "It was the most valuable steal she had ever yet made... she told herself that it was
             worth at least a couple of dollars" (92). Zerkow is" a red-headed Polish Jew," the town hoarder,
             possessed by money and rich...