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A five page paper which looks at the concept of family life with particular reference to socio-economic discrepancies, and in relation to Tobias Wolff's short story The Rich Brother.
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affluence are perceived, in terms of their relative importance with the family structure, but also on the concept of family itself and the way in which it can be seen
to define mutual commitment and interdependency. For example, the title of the story itself is ambiguous: we assume that the rich brother is Pete, simply because he so obviously has
greater material wealth than Donald. Even looking below this rather superficial assessment, it could be asserted that he demonstrates other forms of wealth - a home, and a wife, for
example - which Donald has never achieved.
However, all these physical and material acquisitions are ones which conform to the kind of cultural background with which Pete is familiar, and within which he can operate without difficulty.
He is evidently good at his job, and his aims match his aspirations: if he chooses to perceive wealth as being exemplified by a new car, for instance, he has
no difficulty in acquiring one. His overt objective in life is to acquire material comfort and social status, and this is an aim which he is easily able to fulfil:
we have no sense of frustration or unrequited longing in terms of his aspirations.
However, his interaction with Donald tends to reveal other areas of his life where he is perhaps less satisfied with his achievements. He
cannot understand, for instance, the strange and rather other-worldly spiritual commitment and fulfilment which Donald is seeking, but he comprehends enough of it to make him feel uncomfortable. Part of
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