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Consumerism and Debt
How Short Fiction develops Consumerism and Debt.
In the Avignon Electric story, a man is trapped in a cycle of buying luxuries on credit, mortgaging his son's future earnings, satirizing the pressures of consumer culture and the illusion of prosperity.
Where it surfaces
- Final Examination
Money becomes meaningless as people desperately give it away, highlighting the absurdity of economic systems in the face of existential crisis.
- Cost of Living
Carrin's day revolves around acquiring new appliances on credit, mortgaging his son's future earnings, highlighting the trap of consumer debt.
- Prospector's Special
Morrison's debt to the telephone company and his overdrawn water account highlight the theme of debt and financial pressure on the frontier.