Because of the uncommonly, erroneous home life Henry was going through, his personality emerged as hostile, and his character had early developed sexual desires as well as a bit of vulnerability.
The unfamiliarity and errors in Henry’s home life are primarily caused by his father abuse and the distance in his family. The father abuse is unjustified, preposterous, simply a wrong approach to handle the mistakes Henry had done as a child; we could see that in the school incident when Henry hurt that boy, Billy Sherril. The father arose as a stubborn man, an alpha male around his brothers, with such huge, stupid ego causing him to think he is a rich man with a fake job, forcing Henry to go to a fancy high school, Bukowski wrote, “That September …show more content…
Anderson and Mrs. Pirozzi. On the other hand, he had been deprived of love and being cared for, specifically by his parents, which had a negative impact on him, a proof would be the gist of the conversation between him and his teacher when she kept him after school for being inattentive,“ "Your parents don 't give you much love, do they?" "I don 't need that stuff," I told her. "Henry, everybody needs love." "I don 't need anything." "You poor boy…" “ (Bukowski Ch. 13). Despite the absence of love in his life, Henry had an exception with the nurse who treated him during the time he had a severe condition of boils, Miss Ackerman. She was the first person to give some sympathy to a stubborn boy like Henry, Bukowski said, “"Does this hurt?" "It 's all right." "You poor boy . . ." "Don 't worry. I 'm just sorry you have to do this." "You poor boy . . ." ;Miss Ackerman was the first person to give me any sympathy.” (Bukowski Ch. 31). Sympathy wasn’t the only thing he got from her, she was kind; she was nice, too nice maybe that Henry mentioned she was the nicest person he had met in 8 years. All these feelings he’s getting from here made him somewhat vulnerable, feelings started to evolve on his side, emotional not sexual, he began to fall in love with her, a new, maybe temporary, but significant part of Henry’s character, love. This part that takes a lot of time to evolve, especially in people who had the same childhood as Henry and experienced what he had been through, Bukowski said, “and I began to fall in love with Miss Ackerman, my nurse of the squeezing. She would never know how each
The unfamiliarity and errors in Henry’s home life are primarily caused by his father abuse and the distance in his family. The father abuse is unjustified, preposterous, simply a wrong approach to handle the mistakes Henry had done as a child; we could see that in the school incident when Henry hurt that boy, Billy Sherril. The father arose as a stubborn man, an alpha male around his brothers, with such huge, stupid ego causing him to think he is a rich man with a fake job, forcing Henry to go to a fancy high school, Bukowski wrote, “That September …show more content…
Anderson and Mrs. Pirozzi. On the other hand, he had been deprived of love and being cared for, specifically by his parents, which had a negative impact on him, a proof would be the gist of the conversation between him and his teacher when she kept him after school for being inattentive,“ "Your parents don 't give you much love, do they?" "I don 't need that stuff," I told her. "Henry, everybody needs love." "I don 't need anything." "You poor boy…" “ (Bukowski Ch. 13). Despite the absence of love in his life, Henry had an exception with the nurse who treated him during the time he had a severe condition of boils, Miss Ackerman. She was the first person to give some sympathy to a stubborn boy like Henry, Bukowski said, “"Does this hurt?" "It 's all right." "You poor boy . . ." "Don 't worry. I 'm just sorry you have to do this." "You poor boy . . ." ;Miss Ackerman was the first person to give me any sympathy.” (Bukowski Ch. 31). Sympathy wasn’t the only thing he got from her, she was kind; she was nice, too nice maybe that Henry mentioned she was the nicest person he had met in 8 years. All these feelings he’s getting from here made him somewhat vulnerable, feelings started to evolve on his side, emotional not sexual, he began to fall in love with her, a new, maybe temporary, but significant part of Henry’s character, love. This part that takes a lot of time to evolve, especially in people who had the same childhood as Henry and experienced what he had been through, Bukowski said, “and I began to fall in love with Miss Ackerman, my nurse of the squeezing. She would never know how each