The One Million Dollar Dream in The Standard of Living from the Functional Fixedness

Abstract

Dorothy Parker is well-known for her wit in her writing, and in her The Standards of Living, she satirizes the two young girls for their empty desire for wealth and the role of money and luxury in life. This paper aims to apply functional fixedness to explain why the two girls have such daydreams which is contrasted with the fact. The paper finds out that the class they live in limit their power to imagine and their superficial understanding of wealth.