ENGL 200 D: Reading Literature: Literature in the Marketplace

When I was reading your paper, I kept thinking about the question of why it is seemingly wrong for Goldfinger to hoard gold and how he moves it around from place to place to gain the most value. To further your paper, it would be interesting to see how Goldfinger is described and how he describes gold.

I am interested in your statement in your second sentence, that Goldfinger has “most of all the ability to see what was really happening”. Throughout the novel, Flemming takes care to remind the reader that Goldfinger has a kind of x-ray vision. Did you have any ideas for this and how it relates to gold? Throughout your paper, you are drawing parallels between Goldfinger and gold. Both are stable, wield power, benefit others who are powerful, and have weakness. At this point, I am not quite sure how your ideas will tie into Marx or Smith. I am also not sure that the “English Bank wants to move away from a gold standard”. Isn’t it trying to get its gold back?

You have good ideas but as I was reading your paper, I was getting a little confused on what you were trying to get because you had a lot of topics. Originally I thought you were talking about how Goldfinger represents gold and the gold standard system. Then your second to last paragraph was about how a gold standard system may not be the best choice. Are you trying to parallel Goldfinger’s downfall to how the gold standard may not be very good? If so, then you should address that in the beginning of your paper.