Conclusion

The story in its entirety does assume a certain morality and perhaps that is one of its major triumphs - that there are neither bulls, nor bears, nor other beasts in the stock market game but only vulnerable humans.

It highlights the importance of money in hard times and how the ruthlessness of an indifferent world can turn even the most compliant man into someone they fail to recognize.

The kind of detail that Nair gets into, to flesh out the actual modus operandi, lends a kind of authenticity to the narrative, which is as shocking as it is compelling.