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Charlie Gordon Monologue

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Similar to Charlie Gordon’s transition with arrogance and his personal bubble, his experiences with and thoughts of women change throughout the book. As the book starts off, Charlie is very unaware of the commitment that goes into a relationship, but above all, he doesn't have that advanced emotional level to entirely understand the feeling of love and connection with another. He might be able to understand friendship which is an experience he would face at the bakery, but the deep emotion of love isn’t portrayed through his character to begin the book. He also expects to rush into a relationship with Alice once he finds he has feelings for her. “Here, I choked, why don’t you make yourself more comfortable? Rest on my shoulder. She let me put …show more content…

As I slipped my arm down to her waist, I felt her tremble, but she kept staring in the direction of the orchestra, She was pretending to be concentrating on the music so that she wouldn’t have to respond to me. She didn’t want to know what was happening.” Both Charlie and Alice were uncomfortable and didn’t know what to expect or do. However, as we start to climb to the climax Charlie starts to understand and wants the responsibility of a relationship with Alice, but struggles with past memories and dreams of his mother, who was abusive to his so called “sexutuall actions and looks.” As Charlie put it in his conversation to Alice he said, “It’s Charlie, the little boy who’s afraid of women because of the things his mother did to him. Don’t you see?All these months while I’ve been growing up intellectually, I’ve still had the emotional writing of the childlike Charlie. And every time I came close to you, or thought about making love to you, there was a short circuit.” After Charlie’s outburst at the presentation in New York Charlie finds an apartment and soon after meets his neighbor Fay, who is sextually active and interests Charlie immediately after they

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