Slumming

This is a perfect example for how materialistic our world has become. I found this story to be very disturbing, but it was a different look at two extremes. Mr. and Mrs. Keyes not only disgusted me for what they had done, but they surprisingly were inspiring as well. What I didn't understand was the fact that the couple was not afraid to drop out of their rich reality to play the part of homeless, but they wouldn't help out the girl that was murdered. They were so apprehensive to have their public image destroyed for the sake of another girls life, and then they tuned out the reality of this in the end. The dream of living the life of someone less fortunate proved to be very irresponsible and I was hoping it would have changed the main characters in the end. I found the irony of the names for benefits very humorous. "A dinner dance for massive head trauma." "A cocktail party and silent auction for irritable bowel syndrome." In a way, I found these inappropriate names coincidentally relative to the faulty reality that this high class society has created. I was surprised in the end that the Mrs. Keyes still continued to cut herself out of the news that could have saved another girl's life or even ended the lives of her and her husband. I guess the charade is over.