Analysis Of Daniel Akst's What Meets The Eye

What Meets The Eye That cliché line that most of us have herd, “It shouldn’t matter on how someone looks on the outside because beauty is on the inside”, or some version of that, but in our society it’s not true. I always had beliefs that being attractive gets you places and gives you opportunities in life, but I didn’t truly realize this until I read Daniel Akst’s, “What Meets The Eye”. When I think of attractive people, I imagine celebrities, all-star athletes, and leaders or “poster children” of huge, well known companies. All of these people have two things in common, attractiveness and fame. But how did they get famous? Part of the reason, that I’ve noticed that some people in society miss, is based on their attractiveness. Sure there are successful business people, athletes, workers, etc., but not all of them are being promoted or advertised as much as the …show more content…
After going over this reading, I came to a better understanding to why the people in our society, who earn more money, earn high levels of success, and seem to be more desirable for spouses, are the more attractive people walking around carrying their looks. I didn’t know till know that, a high percentage of former Presidents of the United States were more attractive than their opposing runner. This clearly shows that looks truly matter in our culture and society. I liked a line from the reading that summed up to say, instead of beauty in the eye of the beholder, beauty is in the eye of the culture. We live in a day and age, with advanced technology, where a majority of the population are influenced by the attractive people being advertised. In my opinion, being or becoming attractive has become our