Avarice by Charles Baxter: My Review

Avarice by Charles Baxter: My Review

"This is how I know she'll take care of me once I'm incapacitated. Slowly, on my bad knees, I get down too. How lovely is her madness to me now." - From the Text The story has insights on death, old age, death experience and avarice. Dolores, being an old woman, sometimes gets lost in thoughts on the future and is constantly ponders over approaching death. The story also highlights how generally people tend to develop a religious inclination when death seems to approach in old age. Mike, Dolores’ husband, was run over and murdered by a bourgeoisie lady in her Mercedes while Corrine’s pension was taken away by capitalists and Jeremy gets angry over capitalists killing elephants for ivory, out of which they carve little buddhas and sell to Americans. All of this is to say that the story seems anticapitalist since Capitalism is constantly mentioned as a socio-economic system based against the teachings of Jesus and Christianity since it targets hoarding wealth …