Materialism

          Even though there are lots of materialistic people, there are also different people who are not.  Several reasons why would be, that the person thinks that they can get what the person wants by being something that they probably are not, they would want to get someone they really love, but in the end they still fail, and the person would go many lengths just to get this one item that they have been wanting in a while.  Being a materialistic person sometimes would not be a good charateristic about themselves.

            To start off, a materialistic person would want one of three things, fame, fortune, or money, but in order to get that they would have to go beyond their comfort zone, and way past that point as well.  An example would be the story The Great Gatsby, the story describes how this one man was on the verge of marrying this one woman named Daisy, but he had to go to this one war, and she was devastated, but he found out that when he was coming back she was getting married to this other man.  The story goes on talking about how he became famous, and made many different parties at his mansion, and how he tried so hard to impress Daisy enough to get her back.  Then, he gets shot by the friend of the man that was going to marry Daisy.

            Secondly, the person would do anything to stay in love with their significant other. Someone could say that they have something for this person, but the item would be gone in about a few weeks, and they have only some change left for that item, but they were also wanting to take their significant other to dinner, too, the person would go beyond their own path, just so they could get enough money, or something.

            Lastly, the person would go many lengths to get what they want.  A good explanation would be from Susan B. Anthony “I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote,” Susan B. Anthony was trying to get the women a right to vote, and she was not materialistic, but she went through so much to get what she wanted. 

            As one can see, this would could go through so many different reasons why there are so many of these materialistic people, but that makes no reason for them to die for their materialistic behavior, but that would not make things better, but sometimes in life people have to go that extra mile to get the job done like Susan B. Anthony, Jonathon Swift, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.