Today I read pages 522-524 of Everyman. The play has started to take form and I'm beginning to understand everything. In what I read today, Everyman notices that the people who say they love and care for him and promise to help him with whatever he needs keep breaking their promises and aren't really there for him. "For fair promises men to me make, but when I have most need they me forsake." "Lo, fair words maketh fools fain: They promise and nothing will do, certain. My kinsmen promised me faithfully for to abide with me steadfastly, and now fast away do they flee. Even so fellowship promised me. What friend were best me of to provide?" Like God said earlier on, mankind has become extremely selfish. His friends are only willing to help him if what he's doing wont harm them or take anything away from them in any way.
Still, Everyman continues to look for help. He thinks of his goods and riches and thinks that they can possibly make him hopeful like they always had, so he calls upon them. The goods answer makes it sound like Everyman has more goods then necessary, more stuff then he was even aware of, and stuff that was never touched more then once and then thrown into a closet. "I lie here in corners, trussed and piled so high, And in chests I am locked so fast- Also sacked in bags-thou mayst see with thine eye I cannot stir, in packs low where I lie." Everyman then asks his goods to go on the journey with him but the good absolutely refuse.
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