Decorator pattern mess

Question

I\'m having a problem figuring out if I\'m using the decorator pattern the right way. Let\'s suppose I\'m working on a console application. In this application I have define

Answer 1

This is a well-known drawback. The GoF mentions the following liability of the Decorator Pattern.

Lots of little objects. A design that uses Decorator often results in systems composed of lots of little objects that all look alike. The objects differ only in the way they are interconnected, not in their class or in the value of their variables. Although these systems are easy to customize by those who understand them, they can be hard to learn and debug.