The doctors did not help Charlie Gordon at the end of “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keys. In the end, Charlie felt lonely, sad, and worse off then he did before his surgery. He lost his way when he was smart. A clear example of this is when he was losing his ability to write well. He was writing his feelings about the surgery and how he was going to start his life over, away from New York, because it ultimately ruined him. He wrote, “That’s why Im going away from New York for good. I dont want to do nothing like that again” (Keyes 538). His friends and co workers at the factory didn’t want to work with him anymore, and his teacher thought he was way too smart to be talking to her. Even though he did feel what it was like to be smart, he
