West presents a satiric, yet saddened look at how dreams are shattered by reality oft. In this novella become, West uses metaphor after metaphor to show how perverse the Society of Los Angeles has. Love has become nothing more than "a vending machine," and he Describes how the statue of Eros, the God of Love, which hidden in a trash can, covered by yesterday's newspaper. The ultimate question he leaves the reader with is what, if anything, can be done to save this ruined society based on unfulfilled dreams
