In the story “Flowers for Algernon” a man named Charlie undergoes an operation that will make him smarter. It starts out fine but things suddenly start going down hill. It seemed like the smarter Charlie got, the unhappier he became. Charlie thought that him being smart would make him happier, but as the story goes on he realizes he was very wrong. As soon as the operation started to take affect, Charlie started to see the world for what it really was. He noticed things about people that he didn’t before. An example of him noticing things is when he goes to a restaurant and some mean people start making fun of a boy with a mental disability, Charlie lashes out at them for being mean. In this case obtaining knowledge made charlie angrier
