The novel, McTeague, written by Frank Norris has many ways to understand the events. The relationships between the characters in the story are strange. First, it seems that the first half of the story many of the characters come together. For example, Marcus and McTeague become friends, Trina and McTeague get married, Maria and Zerkow get married. As the story ends, the friendships of the characters breaks down into violence and death. First, Zerkow killed …showed first 75 words of 1344 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1344 total…used many quotes to imply this. The second theme was social Darwinism. All of the characters wanted money. They did not know they wanted money until they were introduced to luxury. They third and obvious theme was greed. The greed from money made most of the characters into terrible human beings. Everyone was jealous of everybody else. The three major themes in the novel 'McTeague' are greed, social Darwinism, and characters being linked into animals.