Group 6- Foreshadowing
“You don’t know what you have until you lose it.” This is something that no one ever understands.
“Ah, upon another face, perhaps it might! But never on yours! No, dearest Georgiana, you came so nearly perfect from the hand of nature, that this slightest possible defect- which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty- shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection.”
Until he loses her he will not realize what he has. He must always strive for perfection and this is true of all Americans. They are all undermining America by their relentless need to have something perfect. They are always looking to improve their situation by the use of positive thinking but never realize that this is what screws us all over. This is the mistake that all of you make and this is what needs to be fixed before we can say that we are safe.
Even during the past decade, Americans have always been living beyond their means and this is what caused the recent economic collapse! The signs were all available and all one had to do was look and it would have been obvious. The signs were there already in the expanding crises and all of the corruption. Americans were all so greedy that they missed it. Just as this Aylmer, he missed what he had and so he has to lose it before he realizes it, he is the perfect comparison to the Americans and the economy.
