Balthazar
¡¯s Marvelous Afternoon ( Why didn¡¯t receive the money?) ¡° ¡¯s Marvelous Afternoon ¡±, written by Gabrial Garcia Marquez, is a story about a birdcage and a poor carpenter, . In the story, made a beautiful birdcage that was commissioned by Pepe, the son of a rich man, Jose Montiel. However, when the carpenter took it to the boy, his father refused to pay and rather said to sell it other people. Although got really angry, he gave the cage to Pepe as a present. At the end of the story, he told townpeople that he got much money from the rich man and bought everyone cerebratory drinks. Then, why didn¡¯t receive the money. First, he had no intention of money when making beautiful cage. In ...
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was to make the little boy happier. Secondly, he felt mean and dirty about rich man¡¯s money. In this story, the cage was splendid and beautiful as much as news of its beauty had spreaded even before he finished the cage. So even though a doctor insisted on buying that cage, he didn¡¯t sell it because he made only for Pepe. But Pepe¡¯s father treated like a sly merchant but praised its beauty;(p 384, ll 45~50). So, thought that if he received money for the cage, it was to exchange his creative beautiful cage, in other word his pride, with dirty and mean money. Finally, in the story, was not a realist. Although money is not all in the life, it is very difficult to live in our real society without money. However the main character didn¡¯t care about money. Probably, it is because he had no complete family. Even though he had a wife, he was living with her without marrying and having baby. That is, he felt less responsible to earn money than common married man. Usually, our ...
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