The Decline of the West

These changes could happen from virtuoso day to a nonher. How do you tell your family that their economic situation, eery of a sudden, has changed beca work surface of your untried status as unemployed? Especially when family the family is accustomed to the idea of mannertime the sweet life. The Decline of the westerly from 201 0 is about a part who experiences the difficult problems of the economic decline. In the improvident story The Decline of the West, the narrator microphone lives with his family in the outskirts of London. He upright got fired and is direct on his way home to pass the news of his recent dismissal. mike utilize to work 12 hours a day, but despite the situation that mike now is unemployed, he looks forward to spent time with his family. He has a rough time tying to tell the truth, and so he ends up arguing with his wife and sons instead. The main character of the short story is Mike. He is a 45-yearold man, father of two, and has until now been work ing in embodied finance. Mike is a hardworking man, who has provided his family with a sack outly house in safe surroundings, plenty of material benefits, and an AU pair, who brush off take carry off of the house when he is not there.Mike barely sees his family, and admits lankly that the AU pair sees a good deal to his family than he does himself. The AU pair saw more of his house and family than he did -1 . The sweet welcoming Mike ima traped was far from reality. When Mike arrives home, his wife, Imagine, does not even take the time to say hallo to her husband, but simply just passes him by with a gin and tonic mentioning going up steps to take a shower. Imagine passed him in the hall carrying a gin and tonic, saying she was going upstairs to engender a bath2 This indicates that the marriage might not be as warm and love as one may think.Mikes marriage does not seem to go well. Imagine is not acknowledging Mike, nor is she interested in him. Is it attention youre after? 3 Mike sees himself as a man that gives all he can ever Offer to his family, but they are never satisfied. l paid for this with my time, intelligence, and the education the state provided me with4. Mikes view on him self stands in cracking contrast to the adverse image we stir of him from the dialogues. The contrast especially becomes tidy in the argument between Mike and his older son, Tom. Are you jocose? Youve done nothing for me . As the argument is developing it proves out that the children, and the engender or that matter, is very unrealistic when it comes to economy and money. No matter how much they get, it is never enough. Mike has always given his children exactly what they wanted, despite the fact that their joy never lasted long. The kids had stopped using it before hed hardly begun remunerative for it6. The narrator in the short story is a first someone narrator with a limited point of view to the father. By this we get an insight in the fathers thoughts and spe culations. He believed he was good at large things up7. We see everything from his point of view, so we have therefore have a colored view n the story. The story is written with the use of Pats. We, as a reader, relish sympathy for Mike. Imagine and the children seem stingy and ungrateful. They are products of the capitalistic consumer society. They are all against Mike and he himself takes define as the victim. He appears to be alone with the knowledge of his famish succeeding(a) situation however, he does not have the courage to face the consequences.Instead he tries to avoid them. Mike does become wiser on his family unrealistic luxurious modus vivendi throughout the story. That happens when he notices Queen Elizabeth Siss crooked smile on a tote. How had he never noticed what a sardonic little Mona Lisa smile the blinded-up monarch wore, mocking even, as if she pitied the vanity and greed the note godly8. In the world at large, money is what we worship. We are forgetingly sacrificing the coalition with our family to pursue wealth. Mike has never needed anything in his life.As his father express Mike youve been stalked by good fortune your whole life 9. Now that he is unemployed, he suddenly seems to have lost support of his emotions and life. For a moment he even considers to leave this world and all the financial troubles behind. How easy t was to fall, and how tempting it was -? suddenly would be shell to die 1 0 First of all The Decline of the West mends to the have of Wall Street in 2008, which had a huge impact on the life of millions of plurality in the West.The western countries are currently in a critic financial situation. Our society, build upon capitalism and materialism destruct when the nation began to spend more than they could afford. This theme is evident throughout the story. Mike reflects on the lifestyle he, and numerous others had led in the past geminate of years. He considers whether the financial crisis is a penalt y for this. Nonetheless, like many people, Mike had also worried whether the present catastrophe was punishment for years of fanaticism and self- indulgence 11 The title could also be interpreted as a reference to a moral decline of the modern family. The determine of love, and closeness are being replaced by the desire to posses and own everything you could ever dream Of. The love for material has taken over the love for our match men. We forget about all that really matters and we are only cerebrate on buying the latest gadgets and promoting our economical status. The grotesque overcorrection and insatiable love for material goods might have caused severe damage to our traditional cordial values.Mike and his family is an example of this propensity, so the title might as well refer to the social regression in our culture. The financial crisis has resulted in oodles of full of life problems, but maybe a financial crisis was exactly what we needed? This could be a break from our unrealistic expenditure. bills can buy you many things, but the happiness from it is limited. Money can buy you lots and lots of material goods, still eventually you will no longer feel the same excitement bout your purchase.Just like the kids in the short story, you will sooner or later cast-off your bought stuff and set your goals up for a new investment. Money can offer things to make people happy, but it does not mean that money can buy you adjust happiness. Poor people on the street huddling together to stay warm, that is care, which brings out true happiness. Their situation would improve with a little money, however, in the short story where a wealthy family that cannot live together, where is their happiness? Where is the love? Money cannot buy happiness, nor love.