f these peoples lives, and they do not ever get a chance to break free for some "air" and relaxation. These people's lives are a constant struggle. "And what are the realities of modern life? Well, the chief one is an everlasting, frantic struggle to sell things. With most people it takes the form of selling themselves- that's to say, getting a job and keeping it...That feeling that you've got to be everlastingly fighting and hustling, that you'll never get anything unless you grab it from somebody else, that there's always somebody after your job" (150). These people are consumed by the work they must do in order to be successful so they can support a family. Sadly, these suburbanites are consumed by this capitalistic monster, and do not even realize they are leading false lives, "selling themselves," not enjoying themselves. Everyone in the community lives the same lifestyle and no one recognizes the misfortune of ones life. These businessmen assume they should follow the suburban struggle to keep up.
             George lives his life on this same path, but he comes to a understanding about his life. George explains, "The thing that really changed me, really made an impression on me, wasn't so much the books I read as the rotten meaninglessness of the life I was leading" (143). He recognizes that he lives his life with no true purpose. He goes to work and competes in order to earn money for his wife and children, and to keep up with the bills. He does not really even love his wife. George speaks abou
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