In the story, Flowers for Algernon, the operation that Charlie, the intellectually disabled main character gets to improve his intelligence is very isolating to him. First of all, Charlie is not allowed to tell anyone what it is for, as shown in his statement on March 23, “They said it was better I shud go back to work but I cant tell anyone what the operashun was for.” Consequently, as his coworkers notice his increasing intelligence, they become increasingly scared of him, and start avoiding him, as he writes on April 25, “I wanted to take Joe Carp and Frank Reilly out to lunch to celebrate, but Joe said he had to buy some things for his wife, and Frank said he was meeting his cousin for lunch… Everybody seems to be frightened by me. When
