One of the greatest questions of morality I saw (and the class talked about) was how Lore never acknowledges the other side of the monopoly argument. As far as she is concerned, since the van de Oest products are superior to the others, they have the right to dominate the market. As the son of two educators from a middleclass family, this was about as opposite my thought patterns as possible. The grand revelation she has about her family’s rise to monopoly was all focused on the corruption behind it, not on the nature of the monopoly itself.