Diaz shows how individual perceptions cloud the status of marital communications and memories. Another prevalent theme is human relationships, which we view differently in the four components of the novel. The events in the story make one consider whether money is the primary commodity in life and how important money is to the American myth of ingenuity and success. One focus of the text is wealth and surviving the economic collapse of the 1930s. Trust is a novel that ingeniously integrates different literary styles and genres-novelette, memoir, ghostwriting, and journal keeping. Diaz demonstrates how influential people in history, primarily men, tend to silence the voices of detractors, especially women. Mildred Bevel, Andrew’s wife, emerges as a main character in the book, and her voice becomes more evident as the story develops. The interconnected elements of the story emphasize the wealth of males and seemingly portray women in stereotypic roles of wife, secretary, housekeeper, and nurse. Though this is a fictional work, it is easy to extrapolate how stories of wealth and fortune often manipulate the facts to accentuate the prowess of the powerful. Critics have said that Diaz has the uncanny ability to write about the gap between history and reality.

The versions are nested, and the reader can figure out which narrators are reliable and detect which elements of the stories are plausible.

In Trust, a novel by Hernan Diaz, the story of a depression-era financial baron, Andrew Bevel, is told from four different points of view, four discrete narratives within the book.

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