Love and Money

Analysis of a Novel

Love and Money

By

Erskine Caldwell

1.	SETTING
	Setting (of Place)	:	New York, Florida, New Orleans, Colorado
	Setting (of Time)	:	Early April - December
	Socio-Cultural Setting	:	They live in a modern life ( They enjoy their life and spend their days in a bar)
2.	Character
	Main/Major  Character	:	1.      Roderick Sutter  (Novel writer ) 2.      Tess Demerol (Cocktail girl) 3.      Charlotte  (Rick Lover)
	Minor/Supporting Character	:	4.      Harvey 5.      Rob 6.      Morph Dough 7.      Ronnie 8.      Connie 9.      Ken 10.  Suelaine 11.  Jack Bushmillon 12.  Lilly 13.  Laverne
3.	Plot
	Exposition	:	From page 5 – 78 ( I jumped up and grasped her hand. She stared at me in amazement.........)
	Complication	:	Page 79 - 135
	Crisis	:	From page 136 ( “I’ve never loved but once in my life,”...) - 140
	Falling Action	:	From page 140 -  145
	Resolution	:	From page 145 ( “There is no future......to find the ideal woman) - 149
4.	Point of View	:	First person point of view
5.	Symbol	:	Love and Money
6.	Tone	:	Romantic, melancholic
7.	Theme	:	Romance
8.	Message	:	We should not pursue our love because of wealth because a true love flows naturally and it comes from the bottom of our heart. So we can not use love as means to reach our ambition and our obsesion.
9.	Comment	:	This story is compatible with the adult
Synopsis          Rick, the novel writer, spends his days in Florida after leaving New York. Florida is a nice place for him to explore and flow his ideas and to inspire his novel.  One day, he came to a bar to enjoy his life with his friend, Harvey. He meets Tess, a beautiful woman. She attracts Rick’s attention to be his close friend. Suddenly, Tess leaves Florida to continue her journey to New Orleans. Rick fells down hearted and fells something has gone from his heart. He decides to go to New Orleans to meet Tess but he has to finish his big works in Florida.        He tries to bear up his longing for Tess and he decides to look for where Tess is, but he doesn’t know which part of New Orleans she is. Ronnie, his friend, gives a little information and map that Tess may be work in a place called Merry-Go-Round. Arriving in New Orleans, he looks for Tess in Merry-Go-Round, but he doesn’t find her. After e few days he meets  Suelaine, the bar waitress, and she helps him to meet Tess. Then he meets Tess in the bar and asks her to be his wife, but actually Tess doesn’t want to meet him but Rick desires to meet her. So, Tess left him behind, but Rick doesn’t give up in this case.       Tess goes to Colorado; she doesn’t want to meet Rick anymore. She knows that Rick loves her very much, but Tess doesn’t. She asks her friend, Laverne to merry him. As a matter of fact, Tess admits she doesn’t love anyone only her former husband. They are very deeply love each other, but her mother in law didn’t want to marry her and they are divorced after delivering a new baby named Lilly. Tess advices Rick to marry another woman to realize his novel. Then, Rick comes back to Florida and meets Charlotte who motivates him to realize his novel. Charlotte loves Rick very much and she becomes his huge inspiration for his novel. This fact affects his novel as best seller of the year.