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#1 George Amory, the man I preferred to call, was heir to a large Long Island fortune. He was a tennis player and a blond and handsome insouciant elegance embodied in a tailor’s window. He had three children, but his wife was without substantial means of her own, and they couldn’t afford to live comfortably.

#2 Amory’s story is a prime example of the pathologies of wealth. He was born into the ranks of the equestrian class and educated to the protocols of wealth at prep school and college. He couldn’t afford to raise his children like his parents had done for him, and his feeling of failure showed in his eyes.

#3 I grew up in San Francisco, which was a city known for its romantic image of itself. The citizens doted on a romantic image of themselves, and they lacked any sense of other voices in other parts of town.

#4 The point of view that the world is an entertainment for the rich assumes that Australians will play tennis, that Italians will sing or kill one another in Brooklyn, that blacks will dance or riot, and that holders of a season subscription will live happily ever after.

Summary of Lewis H. Lapham's Money and Class in America

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