Rapping the story.

In Baucis and Philemon I saw a contradiction. In the story of Midas, it teaches that we shouldn’t be greedy and that money and the materials around us do not lead to happiness. We can see that through what happened with Midas. He gained the ability to turn anything into gold, which represents the greediness of people. As a payment for that ability, he lost his daughter, which represents relationships between people, the heart of the people. However, in the story of Baucis and Philemon, Baucis and Philemon gained a better life in a sense that there are better quality materials around them, for sharing what they have with people who don’t have. The idea of bigger house and perfection is stuck to our minds like oil. Even the gods offered such materialistic things.