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Apathy In The Lazy River By Zadie Smith

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Apathy is a common pattern seen among those who live life in an affluent lifestyle specifically in the Western culture. This is often criticized by many works of literature which write about the “struggles'' within this lifestyle. A perfect example of this is a short story by Zadie Smith “The Lazy River”. This short story covers the many flaws within posh people. Within this book, the setting and symbolism that surrounds the characters display the way the people are careless with the value of money and work, derealized and how they are unaware of their true struggle. The hotel guests are very unconscious when it comes to money and this is seen through the use of symbolism as the resort guests have little to concept of money and its value. The first example of this is the lazy river is how the people …show more content…

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