veebeebee:

hymnsofheresy:

seanpgilroy:

hymnsofheresy:

the grinch being in all these stupid advertisements contradicts the anti-consumerist nature of the grinch himself. the reason he hated christmas was because he thought the holiday was simply an expression of vain materialism. the grinch only loved christmas after he realized that christmas wasn’t actually about mundane consumption, but the selfless love of community. in this essay i will-

I can’t believe all you people consider the Jim Carrey Grinch canon.

i haven’t seen that movie. my analysis is purely based off of the book.

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! “Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store.“ 

“Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!“ 

And what happened then? Well…in Whoville they say, 

That the Grinch’s small heart Grew three sizes that day!

The Grinch didn’t hate Christmas because of materialism, he hated it because it was loud (because of all the presents and merrymaking). He thought he could ruin it by taking the presents and such because he didn’t understand that it wasn’t about the things.