The Not So Secret Santa Analysis

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In the clip “The Not So Secret Santa” from the television show The Office US it shows that gift giving has a relationship with greed and the feeling of power/importance. This relates to greed because Michael gives his co worker Ryan a gift that was extremely over budget meanwhile he received a single mitten that would not benefit him in the future. Realizing that he has given a gift away that someone would benefit from and receiving something resembling little to no value to him. The type of gift he received caused him to become enraged with everyone and decided to change the game so that he would still have a chance of to benefit by being able to trade his useless gift for something more valuable. Michael shows that he believes that he is

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