Greed

 A Face in the Falls, August Wolf and The Sharecropper's Son. 

These stories reveal the perplexities, the strengths and the weakness of people that are true to life (and like life) these stories expose the innate greed present in mankind.

"There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit