Friday, June 25, 2010

Quote from Death of a Salesman, Act 2 pg. 56

"Whoever heard of a Hastings refrigerator? Once in my life I would like to own something outright before it's broken! I'm always in a race with the junkyard! I just finished paying for the car and it's on its last legs. The refrigerator consumes belts like a goddamn maniac. They time those things. They time them so when you paid for them, they're used up."

One thing that I disapprove of in Canada is that everyone is so materialistic; though this is common worldwide but I notice it more here. Everyone is wasting time and energy and working for such things like a car, a house, and etc. If you finance let's say a car, by the time it's actually yours the car is old. If you buy a house, you pay mortgage for 10 years and more and by the time it's actually yours, you're old and so is the house. You put all your money into these materialistic things thinking it'll give you happiness and the end your back to where you started from; you're left more miserable and frustrated, and in many cases broke. Because of these expensive materialistic goods, many of us live our lives on the edge. We save every bit we can so we'd be able to pay off coming month's mortgage and etc.

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