- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
As Tommy Elefante works in his mother’s garden, he thinks about how upset he is about his city growing selfishness—and how that selfishness is rubbing off on himself, too. Indeed, greed is a central issue in the novel. In some cases, the greed that characters exhibit is understandable. For instance, Deems is on his own, without anyone to care for him. It makes sense that he would turn to selling drugs to get by, even if it is a greedy thing to do. Meanwhile, there are also characters like Joe Peck—whom Elefante despises—who will do anything to continue gaining wealth…