Charlie Gordon Character

32 year old Charlie Gordon has struggled his entire life he longs to fit in and talk “...about art and politics and riligon”(p.16). Having a learning disability as a young children created struggles for Charlie; not being able to have proper social skills and friends created a very lonely environment for charlie as a youth. He had a very unhealthy relationship with his family, his mom was very disappointed in him because he was a “normal” child. Rose (Charlie's Mom) constantly scolded him for not living up to unrealistic expectations. His sister and father struggled with him as well but not as much as Rose who was extremely disappointed in her son. As he grows and get older he is given away to his uncle and the Mr. Donner who is the owner of Donner’s Bakery. Working at Donner's Bakery he made “friends” named Frank and Joe as well as others who always pick on him and make fun, saything mean comments like pulling a Charlie Gordon whenever someone does anything stupid or makes a mistake, he also met Miss Kinnian the teacher for mentally challenged adults at the …show more content…
Having the operation gave him a sense of belonging and having a real relationship with Miss Kinnian or Alice as they became close together and began to fall in love. However it is also a bad thing for this surgery because it hurts the people around Charlie. Dr. Strauss and Professor Nemur began to feel the effects of the surgery with his I.Q surpassing the 200’s. With such high intelligence levels and such low social skills the people around him began to feel sad and small compared to him. A scene in Flower for Algernon shows Charlie yelling at Professor Nemur forcing him to accept the Charlie is smarting than him. The surgery also affected Alice because the relationship between her and Charlie due to the fact that Charlie would soon forget her as his intelligence begins to decrease at an alarming