Capital speculation is a normal phenomenon in the society dominated by capitalist economies. In The Taste, Mike is a veteran hero of the capital speculators who has abundant capital. Although he tries to dilute histrue qualities as a capital speculator, the wine tasting and small gambling, which is the necessary program of abanquet, makes this behavior with dense natural affection and friendship be infected with a kind of speculativecolor, which is said to have tried to draw a tiger, which ended up resembling a dog, namely, failing to achievewhat one set out to do. By means of small slightly elegant matters concerning personal life, The taste is anallegory of the losing of humanity in the society with prevailed capital speculation through analyzing a series offools fallen into the gambling and the maid with brilliance of humanity.