"And so the house came to be haunted by the unspoken phrase: There must be more money! There must be more money! The children could hear it all the time, though nobody said it aloud."

Paul's parents always compare everything in their family with their neighbours, and feel bad if neighours' were better than theirs, no matter what that was. Paul's family tried their very very best to cover them with the best stuff they had, and hide the worse, or worst. They didn't even satisified with what the best they had, and always want more and more, not only that, they even shouted before their children. That's not right as a normal human being, especially as a child's parent. They should taught their children the best quality as a well educated person and a gentelman. By that way of Paul's parents' teaching, there's no way for Paul to become a
young humility boy and and a student with open mind.