The Queen of Spades: Hermann and Greed The Queen of Spades is a complicated story about greed, the supernatural, love, desires and secrets. The card game in the story The Queen of Spades is one of the oldest games of chance. What I will try to determine is whether the Countess' seemingly real ghost is authentic only in so much as Hermann's consuming madness produces it, as well as to designate the origin of Hermann's …showed first 75 words of 440 total…

…showed last 75 words of 440 total…learn from The Queen of Spades. It is a story written a long time ago, but there is a very meaningful moral to it. That it greed can ruin an individual. Greed can cause a person to do anything and everything, as we see in Hermann and how he played with Lisa's feelings. In conclusion, The Queen of Spades is a story that everyone should read and learn that greed is a very destructive trait.