The Pearl: Selfishness And Greed

Part I of Essay
I chose to write my essay on the profound amount of selfishness and greed displayed by some of the characters in The Pearl. The person who I feel is the most selfish is the doctor. After the baby, Coyotito, is stung by the scorpion and Kino takes him to the doctor, the do ....

Part II of Essay
.... he gives Coyotito the anecdote and then asks when he will get paid. The next show of greed comes from the dealer that Kino was going to sell the pearl to. The dealer tells Kino that his pearl is large and clumsy, and that no one would buy it. Then he offers Kino one thousand pesos, but Kino knows that the pearl is worth fifty thousand pesos. When Kino doesn't agree to sell the pearl for a thousand pesos the dealer tells his servant to go find three other dealers. When the other dealers get there, two of them say that they wouldn't gi ....