In the second half of Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers displays a subject and issue that allows to view the ideas, feelings, perspectives, or attitudes that is surrounded. In this case psychology is seen as the main subject to emphasize what is being brought up. However, the subject of psychology can be also be involved in issues such as buried pain/anger, the physical environment, violence, relationships, and identity.
The feeling of buried pain/anger brings in a strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility. For instance, Sandro who has buried the pain of his involvement of a death has led him to have “thought a lot about the man who drowned or tried to, in the East River” (363). As well revealing “Sandro had saved one man and …show more content…
She describes “the villa was nestled in the high wilds above Bellagio, its grounds, on a broad, flat promontory overlooking the lake, were landscaped and formal, all geometric lines and classical motifs” (219, 220). This description by Reno tells her psychologically that at the Valera household looks to be well put together by the Valera’s and looks to be a very peaceful environment. However, when Reno decides to go to the factory she encounters a different perspective of the Valera’s. At the factory gates was a large group of men with signs. They swarmed around a car that was attempting to pass through the gates” (259). This physical environment shows chaos for many people that are expressing frustration and anger towards the Valera’s which suggests Reno to sees “expected some kind of conflict, but they only handed flyers to the men in the car” (259) indicating Reno to understand that there is more to the Valera’s than what she knows. She eventually comes to terms and really feels the pressure of physical environment when she is part of the blackout. “There was no city actively guiding me, the shops and walking masses and traffic lights giving their deep signals of what to do, where to go, and who, and what to see, what to buy, how to feel, what to think” (348). This presents Reno clarity that there is more …show more content…
For Sandro it began at a very young age with his parent relationship. The relationship of his parents was that “his father was cruel to his mother, and this might have been cause for an intimate alliance between mother and son, but he never like his mother much either, so he allowed no alliance” (368). This tells him psychologically that it’s alright to treat someone that you supposedly love with harsh exchanges and alienation from family, which does happens with Sandro’s relationship with his father. He describes it as “he never like his father much, an old, strange man who relished in dampening Sandro’s fun in the same way Roberto did” (362). By Sandro’s description it conveys he always had the attitude that Roberto was more important to his father than he was which led a strain in their relationship. From the strain father-son relationship brings Sandro complications with his future relationships with Reno since Sandro doesn’t know right from wrong. By stating “He wasn’t choosing to wreck his relationship. He couldn’t have known his American girlfriend would have found her way to the drab industrial outskirts of Milan, and be there at the factory, right there” (371). Indicating that Sandro did love and cared about Reno but does know how to keep a stable relationship
The feeling of buried pain/anger brings in a strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility. For instance, Sandro who has buried the pain of his involvement of a death has led him to have “thought a lot about the man who drowned or tried to, in the East River” (363). As well revealing “Sandro had saved one man and …show more content…
She describes “the villa was nestled in the high wilds above Bellagio, its grounds, on a broad, flat promontory overlooking the lake, were landscaped and formal, all geometric lines and classical motifs” (219, 220). This description by Reno tells her psychologically that at the Valera household looks to be well put together by the Valera’s and looks to be a very peaceful environment. However, when Reno decides to go to the factory she encounters a different perspective of the Valera’s. At the factory gates was a large group of men with signs. They swarmed around a car that was attempting to pass through the gates” (259). This physical environment shows chaos for many people that are expressing frustration and anger towards the Valera’s which suggests Reno to sees “expected some kind of conflict, but they only handed flyers to the men in the car” (259) indicating Reno to understand that there is more to the Valera’s than what she knows. She eventually comes to terms and really feels the pressure of physical environment when she is part of the blackout. “There was no city actively guiding me, the shops and walking masses and traffic lights giving their deep signals of what to do, where to go, and who, and what to see, what to buy, how to feel, what to think” (348). This presents Reno clarity that there is more …show more content…
For Sandro it began at a very young age with his parent relationship. The relationship of his parents was that “his father was cruel to his mother, and this might have been cause for an intimate alliance between mother and son, but he never like his mother much either, so he allowed no alliance” (368). This tells him psychologically that it’s alright to treat someone that you supposedly love with harsh exchanges and alienation from family, which does happens with Sandro’s relationship with his father. He describes it as “he never like his father much, an old, strange man who relished in dampening Sandro’s fun in the same way Roberto did” (362). By Sandro’s description it conveys he always had the attitude that Roberto was more important to his father than he was which led a strain in their relationship. From the strain father-son relationship brings Sandro complications with his future relationships with Reno since Sandro doesn’t know right from wrong. By stating “He wasn’t choosing to wreck his relationship. He couldn’t have known his American girlfriend would have found her way to the drab industrial outskirts of Milan, and be there at the factory, right there” (371). Indicating that Sandro did love and cared about Reno but does know how to keep a stable relationship