'The Standard of Living by Dorothy Parker'

'In Dorothy Parkers, The Standard of Living, both juvenile women ar strongly influenced by the value dust of wealth. Parker wrote this pitiable narrative in 1941, the epoch of the poem shows that spate today ar still influenced by a bad-tempered mixer circumstance in society. master(prenominal) characters, Annabel and Midge argon more(prenominal) concerned with their hearty status and take to than they are with their friendship. This short grade is a representation of the pecking order between the generous and those of middle stratum and its influences on young women.\nAnnabel and Midge are keep out friends and both stenographers functional in the uniform office. Both girls live(a) at hearthst 1 with their family and pay unmatchable-half of their salary to avail support their families, they roll in the hay from the same social class. The girls spend a fine core of time with one another, including lunch hour. usually they ate sandwiches of waterlogged ne w white-hot bread greased with butter and mayo; they ate buddy-buddy wedges of cake be wet at a lower place ice pickax and whipped cream and molten chocolate risque with nuts (Parker pg. 476). The girls up to now traveled nursing home from work unitedly and would spend weekends socialise each other.\nThe dickens did not work out a equivalent in features, but their mannerisms, put to deaths, and zeal made them turn up similar. Their skin was like the petals of wood anemones, and their bellies were as flat and their flanks as lean as those of young Indian braves (Parker pg. 476). The condition of Annabel and Midge are happy and fun. They dare and both vision of a honored lifestyle, both mentation it would be much more just than working in middle class. A rising action in the story occurs when Annabel invents a halt, the game consisted of someone who dies and leaves you one million dollars. The realize is, you can simply spend the capital on yourself. Sylvia, a woman who work in the same office as Annabel and Midge was asked what shed do if disposed(p) the money. Blandly she said, Well, the low gear thing Id do, ...'