Moreover, Shteyngart (13) writes that during the last night in Roman, Lenny spent the night with Fabrizia another woman he had relations with. This is a clear indication of the way the characters in the novel are obsessed with sex. Lenny writes that it is a capital insult not to make love to a naked woman, even when she is related (Shteyngart, 216). In contrast to my normative view, characters in the novel believe that it is fine to engage in sexual relationship with multiple partners. The characters believe that money means everything. I believe that material wealth should not be used as a measure of the person’s status and one should love freely without having to look at what their partner owns. Moreover, due to materialistic view of the character one can use wealth to seduce someone who does not love him.
Material wealth has been used to look down upon other less fortunate people in the society but I do not concur with this belief. Material wealth should not be a measure of the person’s status in the society but what the positive impact they make in the society should count. The belief that a certain family can be worshipped because it is rich is flawed. These excerpts demonstrate that the characters in the novel are materialistic. This shows that characters in the novel are placed in classes according to ones material wealth. In (73) Lenny explains that he had to pay an extra ten dollars each at F train stop to them into the business-class carriage. The characters in the novel belief that they are not going to die but will live forever when they have material wealth (Shteyngart, 312). He further quotes that he is wanted to head a commission in Shanghai where he will get fifty million dollars. He tells her that Eunice to stay in his beach house in Pulgia. He notes that the sculptor planned to impress the un-impressible Eunice Park by bragging of the material things he owns. Shteyngart (17) brings out another instance to show how the characters in the novel are materialist. This view clearly demonstrates that the success of a person in this society is measured by their wealth. Despite their poverty, Lenny’s parents could afford to laugh at the poor people and could pick up some lessons from the about what failure could mean in America.
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