The One-Eyed Monster: Why I Don't Let Him In, is one of Barbara Kingsolver's interesting short stories. In this story, Kingsolver demonstrate the disastrous limitations of television through specific events in a regular American family, in which there are a wife, a husband, a teenager, and kindergartner. One of the key sentences in this story is, "The world, a much wider place than seventeen inches, includes songbird migration, emphysema, pollinating insects, the Krebs cycle, my neighbor who recycles knitting-factory scraps to make quilts, natural selection, the Loess hills of Iowa, and a trillion other things outside the notice of CNN" (1072). Barbara emphasizes the television viewing is not only meaningless informational education, wasting of time, but also happiness and helpless matter.

At the beginning of the story, in a regular American family, they have their discussion about why everyone's house all over the world almost gets cable television but...