Topic > Essay on Domination and Hegemony - 1171

In another Chuck Jones animation, “One Froggy Evening,” a construction worker dreams of becoming rich. One day, his life changes forever: he finds a frog who sings and dances and performs for only one person, our greedy protagonist. Out of greed, the worker spends all his money in a theater where he intends to have the frog act, which he believes will make him rich and famous; however, the man becomes homeless and discards the terrible frog, realizing that he is better off without her. Another example, “The Bear Who Wasn't There” centers on a bear who awakens from hibernation to find himself in the middle of a factory. The foreman tells him to get back to work after the bear informs him that it is indeed a bear. The man instead tells his supervisor, and they all say the same thing to the bear. The businessmen and the bear also go to the zoo bears, and the zoo bears believe that the bear is also a foolish man because he is not in a cage like them. The factory in this story represents greed by showing the upper class positions: foreman, vice presidents, and president. Another example is the use of symbolic imagery in the cartoon where businessmen have red stock market arrows flashing on their skin. Finally, John McPhee's short story “Finding Marvin Gardens” concerns a competitive game of monopoly between his friend and the author of the story. It explains the real locations, giving the reader a taste of the reality of the story behind the game. Mr. McPhee describes the beauty of Atlantic City; for example, he compares the Vermont Avenue space on the game board to Vermont Avenue in Atlantic City, where he sees a pack of dogs roaming the squalid, despicable streets. He uses colorful descriptions and explains how people connect greed to their surroundings by writing that "the street you live on is part of your intimate experience" ("Finding Marvin