A Serious Man Larry Gopnick

Have you ever been apart of a situation where you feel like your world is tumbling upside down, yet you have done everything possible to try and make things better, but nothing has worked? This can explain the life of Larry Gopnick the main character, who experiences this trouble in a day to day basis as seen in the movie A Serious Man. A Serious Man can be portrayed as a movie where a man continues to get knocked down from what the world might throw his way, when in reality there is an underlying theme that has been occurring throughout the movie. The underlying theme that is revealed during the movie, A Serious Man is that there is a fear of living in a society and realizing there is uncertainty of what is to come, especially when it comes

To begin, throughout the plot of A Serious Man, Larry Gopnick experiences many trails that affected his view on morality and death as well as love and his familial relationship. For instance, Larry comes home one day and gets sprung with the idea from his wife that she wanted a divorce. The reason of her decision of divorce is because she wanted to be with a different man. That man was a mutual friend and a neighbor for both Larry and his wife, Abe. She backed up her action with reason that she wanted to be “in faith.” While the movie continues to go on, Larry and his wife split up, and his wife and their neighbors relationship begin to blossom. Not for long. Larry was involved in a car crash and walked away with only a few scrapes and scratches. Only to find out that the man that his wife wanted to be with died in a collision the same day that Larry was involved in a car crash. Coincidence, I think not. With the death of the neighbor and mutual friend and

To consider yourself Jewish you believe in a higher power, God and that God is known to plan out your whole life and that he would have the best interest at heart for you. This is when you start to see Larry start to question his faith with his religion. Because if God had his best interest in you, Larry wondered why would these things keep happening to him. The questions that we see arise from Larry is “Is there a God?” “If there is a God then why do bad things happen to me and to other people in this world?” “Whats going on?” For example, since Larry and his ex Wife believe in the religion of Judaism and the way that his wife is acting or now his ex wife, is like an imposter. In the Religion of Judaism being with another man while being married is considered “adultery”, yet saying she is doing it “In faith” is where the hypocrisy comes into place. After Larry understands and wraps his mind around what is happening to his life and to the people in it, he seeks Rabbis. A Rabbi is “A Jewish scholar or teacher, especially one who studies or teaches Jewish law.” (dictionary) Larry visits three different Rabbis. One Rabbi was named Rabbi Scott who was a junior Rabbi. This Rabbi was illustrated as a vey uncensored Rabbi. He had little to no experience with the topic that Larry needed advice with. Another Rabbi that he seeked was a Rabbi named Rabbi Natcher. This Rabbi had a little bit