Gimpel The Fool, Where Have You Been?, And Trifles

The term oikonomia is defined as the law of the house. The economist is the person who will take on the job to create the laws of the house. As we see today, our economy is a massive makeup of various ways to manage our society. Whether managed properly or mismanaged, the economist influences their economy strongly. Economy in general can function in many different ways, as we see in the literature works, “Gimpel The Fool”, “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?, and Trifles. In Gimpel the fool, Gimpel is portrayed as a wise man that later learns from his foolish acts, which shows that as an economist you must ready to endure deception to protect their family. “At night came where my wife lay, but she wouldn’t let me in…Not four months later was she in childbed” (Singer, 97). Gimpel knows he had not laid with his wife and then she turns up with child. Gimpel chose to believe his wife and in return he is fooled by her because that is not his child. Although he was seen as a fool by the audience in his young age, over the years he was there for his

In the beginning of the story, Connie is just a young deceiving teenager that thinks of nothing else other than her own beauty. Her mother is jealous of her and always negatively points out how Connie falls short to her sister. The father is the head of the house yet, is absent in all family interactions. From each character initial qualities, we can see that the house has no central control. As the story progresses, Arnold comes along to take Connie away from her house and his old, mischievous and threatening character represent the final breaking point of a severed home. Arising out of this we can see that Connie becomes the economist of her home to protect her family from the harm of Arnold