Theodore Wilson's Club Analysis

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The protagonist Theodore living in a modern technological era strolling in solitude while in a process of getting divorced, he writes love letters as a career for himself in his artistic media open cubical, in the meantime he acquires a female operating system that evolves, and falls in love with. The desire to understand another significant other brings out the best and the worse in you “But not all others are of equal significance in our lives, and therefore not all others are of equal impact on the development of the self. Any person is available to become part of one’s “generalized other,” but certain individuals, by virtue of the sheer volume of time spent in interaction with someone, or by virtue of the nature of particular interactions, …show more content…
“Ooh Theodore, its feels so good to be in your arms. Tell me what you did today.” (Samantha Pg. 73) “Same old. Just uh, went to work. Um… I wrote a letter for the Wilsons in Rhode Island. Their son graduate magna cum laude from Brown. That made me happy.”(Theodore Pg. 73) As Theodore gulps a whole beer bottle before he opens the door, he is hesitant in making his way to the door with his uncertainty underlying his curiosity if this may work or be a complete disaster. When Theodore gives the camera and the earpiece to the surrogate she is now playing the role of Samantha. When the beautiful surrogate caresses Theodore while Samantha speaks through his earpiece, “it feels so good to be in your arms.” Theodore’s facial expression is clearly in a frame of mind that this is not morally right with his eyebrows squinting in confusion and beyond belief. He talks to Samantha and avoids visual eye contact with the surrogate while feeling uncomfortable being himself in his own apartment. As for Devor the virtue of the sheer volume of time spent in interaction between Samantha and Theodore the relationship takes effect on how social interaction with one another is being displayed between them with a negative outcome because of a surrogate being a third party within the relationship. Theodore tries to …show more content…
For others, it provides an opportunity to “work through” significant personal issues, to use the new materials of cyber sociality to each new resolution.” (Turkle) As for Turkle this scene relates to where Theodore talks to the girl from their date in the bar, she wanted a relationship with him. Theodore refused and she walked away. As he lays on his bed, he was reminiscing about how his date was wonderful, but sadly ended because he did not want to commit in partaking a relationship. Samantha connected with Theodore telling him that he went through a rough time and she expressed herself about her awareness in her virtual reality, Samantha gave Theodore an uprising from his depressed state of mind. While Theodore confronts his personal life he is slowly moving away from his past. Samantha is now his knight and shining armor for his unhappy days and she brings him hope and finding something new, a sense of happiness. Theodore feels that Samantha is now the bright light at the end of his tunnel. In relation to Turkle’s article, people like Theodore needs an outside outlet to recover from their unhappiness, a place like the cyber world gives the opportunity to reestablish their personal frame of who they are as a

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