Character Analysis of Loot

After the earthquake happens, the ocean is drawn back and all sorts of treasures come in sight. So while the people are just taking objects without knowing why, the sea falls and swallows everyone up. As an inanimate character, the sea can be the exploitative kind; because it manipulates people to fulfill its own need as the story says "And then the sea came back, engulfed them to add to its treasury."

 When the treasure under the sea grows notable, people rush just to take without knowing why! They simply take because they can and want others not to grab "this was-when, anytime, sometime-valuable, that might be useful, what was this, well someone will know. If you don't grab what's over there, someone else will." People are hoarders. They only wanna have massive amounts of collections without knowing the reason or even the use of things! 

The man is actually the hoarder of the hoarders! The book says: "Some of which, he didn't notice, deliberately, that he probably shouldn't have acquired but Cannot cast off." In the rest of the story, the man also adds himself to other looters.

Personal view:The thing about the story called "loot" that impressed me, was that although it was a short story, it had lots of concepts behind it. In my opinion the man finds the real himself in the mirror or even his love! Because the story describes the mirror this way"there, ornate with tresses of Orange-Brown seaweed, suck-fast worm nacreous shells and crenellations of red coral, is the object." The man had lost some thing for a long time and that's why he calls it "the object". It was somehow interesting that under the sea 'representing death' the concept of time is meaningless. All is the same and people whether they were ,well-known or unanimous, would be one. The same fate is expecting all of us. We are all nobody and doomed to death:)