In “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck there are many characters that show out to be greedy after Kink got the pearl. For example: the priest, the doctor and Kink. The priest turns out to be greedy when Kink gets the pearl. When the news came to Him he started to wonder whether he had baptized Coyote and if he married Kink and Juan, he also started to think how much the pearl was worth, and what repairs where necessary to the chi arch. The doctor also turns out to be greedy after the news that Kink got the pearl.
At first When Kink was poor, he didn’t want to see Kink’s baby, Coyote, who was bitten by a scorpion, but after when Kink got rich he went to Kink’s brush house, but Juan, the baby’s mother, had made a flat damp poultice and applied on the baby’s shoulder which made the poison recede from its body, but Kink and Juan were not sure if the baby was completely cured. When the doctor examined Coyote, he said that the poison was inside the baby’s body still, and that Coyote could die anytime soon.
The doctor was lying all he wanted was money, and that was an easy way to get it. When Kink found the pearl, everything changed, at the beginning when he looked at the pearl, all he could see in it were his dreams coming true, but after some time passed when Kink looked at the pearl all he could see in it was evil. Kink was also turning out to be greedy and evil, an example of that was when he kicked her on the side after she tried to throw the pearl in the sea, another example was when he killed a man who ride to steal the pearl from him. The Pearl ” by John Steinbeck is a story’ which contains great examples of greed.
