In many works of literature, a main character is motivated by pure greed in order to gain wealth, fame and power. This idea is very clearly developed in the novel TheCradle Will Fall by Mary Higgins Clark where Dr. Edgar Highley, a well respectedobstetrician and gynecologist is using deceitful, depraved, and often deadly methods ofcuring infertile women to gain national fame. The doctors motivation was so greatthat he was willing to go to great lengths to keep his unethical practices hidden. When hiswork was threatened by others he felt no shame or guilt in getting rid of his problems inmore ways than one.The doctor knew his procedures were illegal and often deadly, however the chancefor money and fame outweighed the failures in his mind. Dr. Highley was experimenting with females who could not conceive by taking fetuses from women who had abortionsand implanting those fetuses in sterile women. The amazing part of it was that the processworked. In these past eight years he learned to immunize a host mother from rejectingan alien fetus. (Pg. 311) However his plans for success were ruined when by mistake heimplanted a Caucasian women with and Oriental fetus, and was forced to kill her beforeshe leaked the truth. This occurrence brought on a police investigation that uncovered thedoctors plans.The doctor shared his plans with no one, but he hoped someday he could share hisgenius with the world. He had already had a success with his procedures but he knew hecould not proclaim it for there had been too many failures and too many lives wasted. He already had his success. He could prove it beyond a doubt. He had accurate records,scientific documentation, pictures, X-rays, the step-by-step, day-by-day accounts of all theproblems that had arisen and how he dealt with them. (Pg. 152) The doctor knew it washis procedures that had killed many women, however he felt that for every patient he lost,he gained more insight into his pr...