The Characteristics of a Symbolic Peal

The pearl brings out a lot of human characteristics. For Kino it brings out a hope for a better future. He wants his son to go to school, for him and his wife to finally get married, and to buy a gun. Juana has some feelings the same and some different about the pearl than Kino. At first she was glad that Kino had found the pearl, but she now sees that it is destroying Kino. She wants the pearl to be crush or thrown back into the ocean. The doctor was a greedy man before the pearl was discovered, but now it has made him even more greedy. He thinks that since he helped Kino and Juana's son that they should pay him. Before they found the pearl, he didn't want to help them. The priest was greedy. He wanted Kino to give money to the church. He acts very hypocritical too. The neighbors and townspeople were greed about it too, like everyone else. Everyone of them was saying what they would buy if they had found the pearl.