Monday, May 11, 2009

What is the irony of the story "Flowers for Algernon"?

Having experimentally reached high intellectual levels, the main caracter soon learns that he is ineluctably condemned to lose it all.





He wanted to become intelligent (which in itself brought him some unanticipated pains), and now he faces the pains and the sorrow of knowing the value of all that he will soon leave behind.





A very poignant short story (and novel) which was later transposed to films (2).





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