What is the satire of this short story?

Question

The Story is called "Standard of Living" - by Dorothy Parker

The story is about the lives of 2 women that have a very shallow friendship, that they formed with each other. The two women, Annabel and Midge, are very slim women who work as stenographers earning about 18.50/week. The women engage themselves in a very interesting game. This game is bascailly a fantasy game on what you would do with one million dollars. One day they go shopping and see a pearl necklace that is worth 250,000 dollars, one quarter of a million. The woman are rather disappointed that a quarter of the imaginary money must be spent to buy a single necklace. After that they revise the ame raising the money recieved to 10 million dollars.

What is the satire?

Answer 1

The women's materialism is what's being satirised. The primary example is when they changed the rules to accommodate the necklace.

Here are Wikipedia's articles on satire, and on Dorothy Parker. I hope they help.

Answer 2

Title: What "The Standard of Living," by author Dorothy Parker, suggests about the beliefs, dreams, and value systems of today's materialistic society.
The following is a discussion of what the short story "The Standard of Living," by author Dorothy Parker, suggests about the beliefs, dreams, and value systems of today's materialistic society through a satire of the lives of two young American working girls. Parker illustrates the vacuousness of two lower-middle-class shop girls who imitate society women in gesture and attitude while dreaming of the procurement of a million dollars.

People are shallow, greedy, selfish, and generally immoral creatures--they were in 1941 (when the story was written) and they still are now. What some people do not accept is that a person's quality of life is not dependent on their standard of living--to utilize an old cliche;, some people do believe that money does in fact buy happiness. Indeed, some people even value wealth so much that they even believe in emulating the behaviours that they associate with rich people.
The ingenue figures in such Parker stories as “The Standard of Living” (1941), in which the author satirizes the lifestyle and attitudes of the young working girl who fancies herself a glamourous beauty. Two rather vacuous young women, Annabel and Midge, are at the center of this story; they are perceived as ludicrous by the already established glamour set. By the story’s conclusion, readers, too, are laughing – not only at the ingenues’ vanity but also at the value system that encourages them to cultivate this vanity."

Answer 3

Dorothy Parker Wiki

Answer 4

The satire is that for women making 18.50 a week, a million dollars isn't enough. Pax- C

Answer 5

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