Monday, November 16, 2015

How and where is there economic and political analysis in the story? I really don't see any.

Paragraphs 44–50 contain the mathematical and economic
analysis of the impoverishment of the story’s children and their families. There are
suggestions here of political analysis and resulting political action, even though the
story does not go beyond the comparative prices of necessities and luxuries. Paragraph
50, spoken by Miss Moore, seems to summarize the story’s ideas: “Imagine for a minute
what kind of society it is in which some people can spend on a toy what it would cost to
feed a family of six or seven.” It would be difficult to imagine that the children would
forget such an analysis and comparison, because they have seen and coveted the expensive
toys, and will not forget them and their out-of-reach prices.

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