The Duality Of Allison's Conscience In Weiners By Joel Weiner

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After spending a day with her father, who has Alzheimer’s, Allison is unable to control the impulse to take pills to ease the pain of the effect of human diseases. Weiner personifies Allison’s brain to display the duality between impulse and conscience. Allison’s brain represents her conscience, crying “What are you doing,” (126) as she is unable to control her impulse to crunch “three of the pills” (126). Although Allison’s conscience attempts to stop her impetuous decision to steal her father’s medicine, her impulse overrides her control and conscience, supporting the idea that desperate times call for desperate measures. Weiner conveys that tending to a diseased person can take a negative toll on the caregiver, both emotionally and mentally.

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