"Shopping for one" & Capitalism

In the story "Shopping for one" Jean the main character felt very lonely.
She didn´t want to buy the cookery book because its name was cooking for one.
She felt that the book´s title describes her life because she felt its "pinpointed her aloneness, to prescribe an empty future".
Like her mother said that "you can know a person just by looking what they buy".
I think she felt like she was judged by the other people in the supermarket but is most like she was judging herself all the time.
The story is based in a Capitalism environment where the elements of loneliness and materialistic are present.
The Capitalism was born in Europe thanks to their innovations in financial and commercial techniques.
In USA the principal driving force of Capitalism in the world history also have downs under it.
In the 20th century the country`s people has to suffer the bad effects of it, the Great Depression.
Then the people start to hate that system and charismatic guys come with new ideas for the future of the country.
The resolute next president of USA of that era take some ideas of these people (put taxes to rich people, give pension for people without job) in order to continue with the Capitalism system.
I think that even with new fixes to the system the Capitalism continue to bring unhappiness to a lot of people but this system was created by the men so we can change it if we want to!.