An Analysis Of Alberto Moravia's 'Poor Fish'

Although all people are made the same way in every culture, the different human beings are still judged by their physical appearance. "Poor Fish" and "The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband" can describe the negative attitude towards different people. In the story "Poor Fish" by Alberto Moravia, the couple of a poor dishwasher and girl named Ida was not accepted by another couple who seemed very strong and powerful, because they were just odd looking. In "The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband", Mr. Short and Mrs. Tall were judged by the difference in the height. When Cultural Revolution happened, Mr. Short had problems with his research and was put into jail, as he returns Mrs. Tall died. So, the stories "Poor Fish" by Alberto Moravia and "The …show more content…
As the character described himself “And so I became gradually convinced that I was worth nothing at all and that the best thing for me to do was to keep quiet, in a corner, so as not to get in anybody’s way” (Moravia 185). The major part of society had the same social status, but behaved differently, “... Moravia is less interested in painting an objective canvas of a corrupt world … than with portraying a universe robbed of the possibility of being tragic because it can no longer feel ” (Pacifici 40). The war had a great impact on people and society became corrupt. As a result people lost their empathy, they lost kindness, the social status and the exterior became the major criterias of …show more content…
The prejudice towards being and behaving differently is common, so "He ... answered without hesitation 'No, we were laughing at a frog pretending to be an ox’ ” (Moravia 190). The strong man tried to show how miserable and offensive their behavior is. In the another story, people could not just accept the unreasonable love between people with the strange difference in height. So, the reason was found - “Rich Mr. Short was congenitally deficient while poor Mrs. Tall was a money-grabber on the