The more she contemplated the idea of being rich the more it consumed her. Paragraph 5 says the following, “She had a rich friend, a former schoolmate at the convent, whom she no longer wanted to visit because she suffered so much when she came home. For whole days …show more content…
In the Pearl, Kino strived for his ambitions but at the end his desires never came true. Like George and Lenny’s plans to start a farm, it never happens. John Steinbeck portrayed greed in the pearl through the pearl dealers. The Pearl dealers wanted to trick Kino by telling him that his pearl wasn’t of much value. If this was true then people would of stop trying to steal the pearl and that doesn’t happen. Greed always has dangerous consequences but what John does in this book is to show that even honest desires (Ambition) are dangerous. At the end Kino’s wishes for a better life for his family ended killing his only son and leaving him and his wife and I quote, “Removed from human