How Is King Midas Greedy

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In the story “King Midas and the Golden Touch” King Midas gets a magical power from a good deed. Midas he a nice person, but he is greedy when it comes to being the richest person ever.
In the text it says “ Midas had a loving wife and a daughter he adored, but he was still discontented. He wanted to be the most powerful king in the world; he wanted everyone to envy him.” Midas was a very nice person, but when it came to money he was greedy. When he wished to have everything he touched turn to gold, he thought that this will be great and he will be the richest man alive. Well, that didn’t exactly happen. Anything he tried to eat, drink, or everything turned to gold. So he had to go and ask Dionysus how to fix everything and get rid of

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