Essay Example on Kino's greed for wealth clouds his Judgement

 It was the wildest daydreaming and very pleasant Steinbeck 24 25 He had thought that with money he can now fill the void in his heart that he never seemed to fill since there was never satisfaction or contentment with what he had or what he was offered In the start of the book the author explicitly describes the visual things that Kino wakes up to that makes him happy She was looking at him as she was always looking at him when he awakened Kino heard the little splash of the morning waves on the beach It was very good Steinbeck 1 Kino was portrayed as a loving father and an even better husband who appreciated the little things in life that made him happy yet he was still willing to risk that life for an even better one once he had gone from rags to riches Along with not being always content from what he had he was also never fully satisfied of what he was offered like when trying to sell the pearl Kino s face grew dark and dangerous It is worth fifty thousand he said 

And in it was a small limp heavy bundle The shawl was crusted with dried blood and the bundle swayed a little as she walked Steinbeck 88 To reiterate another way greed eventually consumed Kino which inevitably made the pearl a source of human destruction was when he striked his wife He struck her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders and he kicked her in the side Steinbeck 59 though his wife still was on his side after he got their son killed and after she got hit by her husband Hence Kino was greedy and this greed consumed him and took over making Kino do things he never thought he would do resulting in consequences that he now regrets Kino now has another void in his heart that even money can't fill now because he can always redeem himself and prove himself worthy and he can always apologize to his wife for his behavior but he can never get his dead son back