“Once again, now, I have the feeling of shame burning inside me. This intelligence has driven a wedge between me and all the people I once knew and loved”. Although Charlie had finally attained his dream of being more intelligent, it came with a price, he traded his happiness for intelligence.
As the story progresses, we can see how Charlie starts to become unhappy. As he becomes more and more intelligent, Charlie discovers problems he didn’t even know he had. This begins when he starts to realize why his coworkers hanged around him. “I didn’t know what to do or where to turn. Everyone was looking at me and laughing and I felt naked. I wanted to hide I ran outside and I threw up. Then I walked home. It’s a funny thing I never knew that Joe …show more content…
Donner’s bakery, Charlie Gordon was happy, and confident that he had many good friends even though that wasn’t the case. Charlie’s new intelligence brings truth, but it doesn’t bring him any joy at all, it reminds him how small and lonely his life really is. We can also see that even though Charlie’s intellectual actions never bring him happiness, he continues with them. In the story, Charlie begins to turn back to his former self. Even though his research won’t help him, he’s continues it. We can conclude from this is that even if intelligence isn’t always blissful, it’s the “intelligent man’s burden” to continue with one’s studies, for the benefit of other people. This reason brings him enormous pain seeing how he begins to forget how to read and write, keeps logging everything until the very end of his deterioration. After he returns to his former self, he goes back to look for his old job as a janitor in Mr. Donner’s bakery. When he begins his job a new employee that joined after he had left starts to joke about him making him feel bad, but Joe came to his defense. Later Frank came to Charlie and told him that if anyone bother if or tried to take advantage of him to either call him or Joe.
As the story progresses, we can see how Charlie starts to become unhappy. As he becomes more and more intelligent, Charlie discovers problems he didn’t even know he had. This begins when he starts to realize why his coworkers hanged around him. “I didn’t know what to do or where to turn. Everyone was looking at me and laughing and I felt naked. I wanted to hide I ran outside and I threw up. Then I walked home. It’s a funny thing I never knew that Joe …show more content…
Donner’s bakery, Charlie Gordon was happy, and confident that he had many good friends even though that wasn’t the case. Charlie’s new intelligence brings truth, but it doesn’t bring him any joy at all, it reminds him how small and lonely his life really is. We can also see that even though Charlie’s intellectual actions never bring him happiness, he continues with them. In the story, Charlie begins to turn back to his former self. Even though his research won’t help him, he’s continues it. We can conclude from this is that even if intelligence isn’t always blissful, it’s the “intelligent man’s burden” to continue with one’s studies, for the benefit of other people. This reason brings him enormous pain seeing how he begins to forget how to read and write, keeps logging everything until the very end of his deterioration. After he returns to his former self, he goes back to look for his old job as a janitor in Mr. Donner’s bakery. When he begins his job a new employee that joined after he had left starts to joke about him making him feel bad, but Joe came to his defense. Later Frank came to Charlie and told him that if anyone bother if or tried to take advantage of him to either call him or Joe.