Pretty Maggie Money Eyes is one of Harlan Ellison's many moral stories. He was famous for a while for writing stories that criticized the human condition and nature; he even had a series on the seven deadly sins, he was determined to explain to mankind what "God could not". Harlan was against organized religion and believe the bible was faulty on the lines of not everyone would accept and read it while anyone could read his stories. Pretty Maggie Money Eyes is all about the deadly sin of greed. It is about a man with massive debt and a gambling addiction; he is losing hope fast as he puts his last silver dollar into a lone slot machine at the end of the casino. He pulls the handle and to his surprise, wins the two-thousand dollar jackpot. He goes and cashes it in and then decided to go and use the slot machine one last time but he wins the jack pot again. At this point the pit boss is suspicious and takes to slot machine away to see if it has been tampered with. They find nothing and bring it back to the playing floor. The man continues to win the jackpot until he hears a little voice coming from the machine, taunting him to keep playing and that she would make sure that he keeps winning; she says her name is Maggie and she used to be like him, playing the same machine. He continues to play while the voice taunts him until three brown sevens pop up and the man suddenly dies while the voice in the machine laughs. The sevens then turn blue, the same color as the mans eyes and the pit boss sends away the machine to be destroyed. The symbolism is very strong.