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A Comparison of the Short Stories, "Windows" and "A Devoted Son"
nice things which would make him happy in life. To achieve this goal he had to fight very hard. So hard that once he got what he wanted, he realized that the reward was not worth the fight. This is true because not once in the story when he was rich did t say he was happy, the only happiness he experienced was when he was poor.
Having nice things and a lot of money does not provide true happiness. Leah was happy when she was poor and the old man was unhappy when he was rich. Leah and the old man became happy emotionally not materialistically, and both of their families were very materialistic but the old man’s rich family was just as unhappy as Leah’s poor family.