The characters of Everyman are confusing me now. Maybe I'm getting philosophical, but I'm trying to relate the "character trait" characters to a world that also has "inanimate object" characters like the new character Goods. How is Everyman talking to his goods as a person? How does Goods exist in the same universe as the other characters? Or Everyman is going crazy and is now talking to his pile of money in the back corner.
Everyman continues his search for a deathly partner with Goods, his stuff, who basically tells him "I'm not going to help you in Hell, because I don't have value down there" Goods also says that he isn't Everyman's, he is God's gift to Everyman and that when Everyman is gone, Goods goes to someone else. That's the nature of money, its past from person to person.
I think Goods being an object is the play write's way of telling the audience a little bit more about Everyman. Goods recounts how Everyman got him, and says that if he had been nicer to the poor or hadn't been as frugal, he wouldn't be about to loose his life. Also, you can kind of say that more people would like Everyman and probably consider following him, because he had done nice things for them: you scratch my back, I scratch yours. And the play write might also be referencing that we don't take any belongings with us when we die, we just stop living; we don't travel to a special door with all of our valuables that we can use in the next life, or go on a train to heaven or hell with our suitcase, its just us dying. Valuables don't actually help anyone once their dead, they're only good to us while were alive.
Pg- I was absent today.
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