From March 3 to November 21, from Near Step Report 1 to Progress Report 17, we accompanied Charlie from a kindly fool to a scholar at the tip of the ivory tower, and then had to accept the flaws of the surgical theory and slowly wait for his fate to come. But when you look at it from a different perspective after reading it, isn't this nine-month experience the life of our ordinary people after condensing it. Even Charlie has stood at a height that ordinary people can't stand, and has already enjoyed the scenery that ordinary people can't even enjoy in their whole life. Nevertheless, the characters in the book still sympathize with Charlie, and we readers unanimously feel that this is a tragedy without compromise.
And that tragedy lies in the fact that from the moment Charlie walks onto the operating table, to the moment he stands at the tip of the ivory tower, to the moment he sees his destiny himself back at Warren House. In fact, only Algernon, the guinea pig, is able to truly understand each other with him. The others are either in awe of him, laughing at him, or using him as nothing more than an experiment for display. Charlie goes to the operating table because he wants to get smarter because he wants his friends to love him more, and the end result is that everyone leaves him. As he advises the professor, "If you let people laugh at you, you're more likely to have friends than call."
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Published on 2023.04.16