Charlie Gordon Greed

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Selfishness in Algernon Greed is sometimes known as ones utter demise and it is a reason why the person often meets an unfortunate end. A great author by the name of Daniel Keyes once wrote, “ The mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can lead only to violence and pain.” This extraordinary quote is accurate in many cases especially in Charlie Gordon’s circumstance. Charlie Gordon’s new greedy persona prohibits Charlie to partake in a relationship; Charlie Gordon’s indecency towards the feelings of others has forbidden a friendship from ever taking root, and lastly Charlie’s new skeptical and angry persona …show more content…

Charlie grew suspicious and cold when learning how his friends harmed him, this resulted in Charlie making his “friends” feel inferior and lesser then him as they did to him before his intelligence germinated. His friends experienced a taste of their own medicine, due to his new attitude he possessed a gargantuan amount of greed forced him neglect the emotions of others, his co-workers loathed what Charlie was becoming and wanted to put an end to his evil and selfish behavior, so as a result Charlie Gordon was discharged from his duties at Donner’s Bakery. The monster deep within Charlie did not just stop at destroying the relationship between Charlie and his co-workers at the bakery; instead it also damaged the friendship between him, Dr. Strauss, and professor Nemur severely. The new selfish Charlie has also established a burning hatred for Dr. Strauss and professor Nemur, because he strongly believed that they did not treat him as a human but as a lab rat. Sympathy was one quality the new Charlie lacked, as a result his deep angry and selfish persona led him to sabotage the convention in Chicago by leaving the scene and stealing Algernon. Charlie and Algernon were key for the experiment and Charlie decides to leave with no regard to what could happen to Dr. Strauss’s experiment, instead he did what would benefit him the most and what would be easier on him, “I’ve walked out on the whole thing.” (Charlie, 154) This monster within Charlie was leading him to a path where he would have no friendships and a place where he would grow angrier with those around him due to his selfishness; however as the regression approaches his self-centered qualities begin to fade until they evaporated. Charlie’s new friendly personality resulted

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