More Than Just Monetary Value In Michael Crichton's The Great Train

More Than Just Monetary Value For centuries, the upper class has led meaningless lives hollowed from the boredom of everyday luxuries and privileges. Although wealth grants access to desires and necessities, it deprives the upper class of the liveliness and sense of meaning that comes from working for such commodities. In Michael Crichton’s novel, The Great Train Robbery, Edwards Pierce’s motive for committing the crime of the century derives from his desire to find a sense of meaning to his tedious, upscale life while inflicting punishment on the greedy. The great train robbery not only gave meaning to an empty life grown from opulence but left a detrimental mark on the greedy. Pierce did not care for the monetary value of his crime since