• Chandra Shekhar Sikder

The plight of an individual in a highly materialistic society is explored in Seize the Day by Saul Bellow. The novelist portrays the American capitalist society where material goods are considered more valuable than the relationships of family members. Money and success become the defining factors of all relationships. People are becoming more and more obsessed with self-interest and losing family bonding, values, and social integrity. Relationships turn into an unusual dimension that is the ultimate result of a materialistic capitalist society. In this novella, the protagonist, Tommy Wilhelm fails to adapt himself in this materialistic pursuit of society and has been apart from his father, wife, children, and the rest of the world. This paper tries to uncover how materialism degrades family relationships, social bonding as well as human relationships.

Individual, Relationship, Money, Pursuit, Materialism

"Devaluation of Human Relationships in a Materialistic Society as Reflected in Seize the Day", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 4, page no.297-302, April-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2104138.pdf

"Devaluation of Human Relationships in a Materialistic Society as Reflected in Seize the Day", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 4, page no. pp297-302, April-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2104138.pdf