A Good Man Is Hard To Find Greed

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ENG 102-07 2/17/2009 The missing necklace. Greed is such a terrible little word don’t you think? When we think of greed we think of things such as money and wealth. The actual definition is a selfish and extreme desire for more of something than is needed. That could possibly be anything including money. Greed is not a good quality and being greedy is not something we would want to be described as. When somebody is described as greedy, we often imaging a rich person who just can’t get enough money in his hands. Greed is usually frowned in advance and often makes people change into something different worse than before. we do not usually see a greedy person that is not selfish. Also, being greedy does not necessarily mean that you desire…show more content…
It seems that from both stories the characters carry out very different actions, but they all have a fundamental bond, selfishness and the desire to be something they are not. It also seems that they are judged in the eyes of the narrator, as either succeeding or failing due to the way they carried themselves throughout the story, we feel the failure at the beginning of two stories, than we see some kind of becoming better people at the end. The authors uses many ironic situations in these two stories “The Necklace” and “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” to reveal how greed can affect a life. People still know the old proverb which says: "Money does not buy happiness." It has been said in many different ways over the time, but for some odd reason, mankind cannot take hold of those words of truth. Many people are overtaken by the combination of fascination with wealth and the fear of weakness in life, which, unavoidably, leads to a realization that true happiness in life consists of more than what money could buy. These realizations are sometimes painful, as seen in the story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant. Mathilde Loisel had always dreamt of a life in the high society. As it was, she never seemed to be able to reach it. Money had the power to separate her from that class of society. The necklace symbolizes to Mathilde the happiness and power. However, after the necklace is taken off she goes back to being an unhappy

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