from Schmaltzs accountant, Abbadabba Berman, that money is the only thing that is important. Berman slips Billy money here and there and makes him a student of financial importance which assist in Billys greedy ways. This greed for money eventually leads to Billy stealing Dutch Schultzs fortune at the end of the book. At the end of the novel, the narrator (Billy)says that he was going to use the money to start his own crime family but never really reveals whether or not he did. He does reveal, however, that he used some of the money to get an Ivy League education that would explain Billys immense vocabulary while narrating the novel. Billy is so greedy that he watches Abbadabba Berman use the safe in order to memorize the safe code in effort to back stab his fatherly figure Schultz. It is plain to see that everything Billy does throughout the novel exemplifies his passionate greed.Billy also demonstrates that he is deceiving in his own selfish ways. For example, when he steals Dutch Schultzs money, he does not even think twice about all the things that Schultz did for him. Schultz took Billy off the streets and made him a wealthy young man in position to learn everything that Schultz and his gang can teach him. Billy did not even think twice about that when he slept with his mentors lover. That is about as deceiving as a person can get. You do not just sleep with your mentors woman unless you have a serious death wish. If Billy would have been caught, the police would have found him wearing cement boots at the bottom of the ocean along side Bo Weinberg. Thisshows that Billy displays courage as well.The mere fact that a fifteen year old boy would get mixed up in an organized crime family such as that of Dutch Schultz, shows that Billy is a courageous. At fifteen years old, Billy was watching people die at gun point. Speaking of being brave, he slept with Schultz woman. Billy was well aware of the things that Dutch Schultz did ...
