Patrick Suskind Use Of Imagery In Perfume

In the novel, Perfume by Patrick Suskind,the author incorporates the idea that society may be attracted to certain individuals by a chemically active world. An individual’s scent may possibly emit different reactions to different society members. For example, the protagonist of Perfume, Grenouille starts out as an unwanted child whose smell was revolting. Suskind used this exaggeration of Grenouille’s odor to give the reader a sense of imagery, to imagine what the scent could have possibly smelled like. The author uses the protagonist’s depressing backstory (abandoned as a child, outcast to the world), to create a sense of pity from the reader, despite the fact that he is a murderer.