Money and material things do not truly satisfy a person's life or make a person happy. Tom Walker had all the money in the world and he was still a stingy cheap miserable old man. Not thinking through choices in life can cause a lifetime of regret and Tom Walker is a great example of someone whose life was ruined by his bad choices. The sad part of this story is by the time he fully understands that his choices were wrong it was too late. He didn’t think about those choices in his earlier years when he was robbing people blind.
Holden’s point of view also affects his life greatly. He views people as boring and “phony”. This causes people to see him as weird and insane. No one wants to be around him. This makes him lonely and isolated, which negatively affects his
Failure to this, leads to harsh penalties and measures towards the main characters, John Proctor and Tessie Hutchinson. In Miller’s The Crucible, injustice is caused mainly because of societies failure to question their superstitious
“Throughout Riis’s work, he carries the prejudiced opinions of other middle class whites of this time. Does he believe these minorities are meant to live in the squalor of the tenements and deserve their poverty? Or does he blame the tenement and their landlords for these peoples’ plight?” Jacob Riis definitely points to the tenants as the victims in this situation; instead, Riis blames the landlords and the social system for the poverty that the tenants are stuck in. It is seen as a cycle in which the tenants make only enough to survive and therefore cannot save anything to better their situation, leaving them with no choice but to continue living and working in horrid conditions. “Not content with simply robbing the tenant, the owner,
Kings, lords, great families and priests ruled and all others were slaves who often had fallen victim to human sacrifice. The irrigation system along with other factors left Sumer desolated, stripped, deserted, and deforested. The people of Easter Island and Sumer were so blinded by their feats that they couldn’t see that they were standing right on the verge of deterioration and even when they did see it made no
But in both stories you found evidence of evil and greed. Paul's mother did not truly love her son, all she cared about was money and the quest for more money. Goodman Brown came across evil spirits that transformed his entire life. Paul
We can see that Curley’s wife is portrayed by Steinbeck as a ‘tart’ in the beginning of the book, she is not cared for or liked by many of the men on the ranch at all as she irritates them and they think that she is not loyal towards Curley. However, by the end of the book the reader feels sorry for her as we see deeper inside her and see how lonely she is, she only has the image of a tart because she is so alone and the only way she knows to make friends is by being a flirtatious person. The first mention of Curley’s wife is in chapter 2 when George and ‘the swamper’ are talking about her. They say that she is ‘Purty ... but- well-she got the eye’. They mean that she is always looking and flirting with other men.
Whilst everyone else on the ranch, and America at the time, is struggling due to the Depression Curley seems careless, wreckless, continues to pick fights and make people feel even worse. It's almost as if he's completely outside of the Economic Struggle, which in fact suggests that Curley's a lonely character, and when in contrast with all the other characters his cruelty is emphasised. Due to this Economic Struggle having getting a job was extremely difficult, to have one and be wealthy was classed as the 'American
He deals with generational poverty, just like Sylvia and the other children. In addition, people who deal with generational poverty, deal with “the most damaging outcome of generational poverty” and “the constant presence of Hopelessness” (“Facts about Poverty”). Flyboy wants to be left alone because he knows he is of no value. He uses his situation to his advantage “…to keep white folks off his back and fill sorry for him” (348). Through Flyboy, Bambara shows what happens when society ignores people leaving in poverty.
By the end, he had become a tyrant and his people turned against him. His view of reality also became distorted and he only saw the positive side of everything. This bad judgment leads him to make bad decisions. The bad decisions that he made resulted in his defeat and unsightly death. His constant ambition made him become involved with only himself and he didn’t take other people into consideration so he eventually lost everyone close to him and his friends.