A Downward Spiral
Many people get to a point in life where they contemplate with the idea of suicide. People have their personal reasons - depression, financial issues, relationships. Some people facade positive emotions to conceal private despair, while others show signs leading to their suicide. In the 1962 film drama The Days of Wines and Roses, a married couple’s relationship falls apart due to alcoholism. “The Doomed in Their Sinking” by William Gass, Gass tries to understand the concept of suicide by writing about his parents and famous suicides. The movie and essay revolves around unintentional influences that inevitably cause their self-destruction. The Days of Wines and Roses a couple who loses their everything because of their addiction …show more content…
It slowly escalates, burning down the apartment, running away to drink with strangers to fill the void of emptiness inside her. Relating this to Gass’s quote “Anyway, men have been killing themselves, we may suppose, as long as life has afforded them the opportunity, but to be sick of life is not the same as having a painful illness or suffering a shame so denobling life is no longer endurable”. It seems that Kirsten is beyond sick of life and living becomes an illness that she has no motivation to get better. Watching her husband quit alcohol and progressing on with life, while she dwells on why she is unable to get well. She falls into depression sinking lower and lower, feeling that no one can help her and that she is alone. At this stage she is well out of options and using alcohol substances to make herself view the world as a much nicer place to keep her sanity. Her will to get better finally depletes when she cannot stay sober for an extra day and leaves her husband, daughter, her old life to go back to her own
Many people get to a point in life where they contemplate with the idea of suicide. People have their personal reasons - depression, financial issues, relationships. Some people facade positive emotions to conceal private despair, while others show signs leading to their suicide. In the 1962 film drama The Days of Wines and Roses, a married couple’s relationship falls apart due to alcoholism. “The Doomed in Their Sinking” by William Gass, Gass tries to understand the concept of suicide by writing about his parents and famous suicides. The movie and essay revolves around unintentional influences that inevitably cause their self-destruction. The Days of Wines and Roses a couple who loses their everything because of their addiction …show more content…
It slowly escalates, burning down the apartment, running away to drink with strangers to fill the void of emptiness inside her. Relating this to Gass’s quote “Anyway, men have been killing themselves, we may suppose, as long as life has afforded them the opportunity, but to be sick of life is not the same as having a painful illness or suffering a shame so denobling life is no longer endurable”. It seems that Kirsten is beyond sick of life and living becomes an illness that she has no motivation to get better. Watching her husband quit alcohol and progressing on with life, while she dwells on why she is unable to get well. She falls into depression sinking lower and lower, feeling that no one can help her and that she is alone. At this stage she is well out of options and using alcohol substances to make herself view the world as a much nicer place to keep her sanity. Her will to get better finally depletes when she cannot stay sober for an extra day and leaves her husband, daughter, her old life to go back to her own