What Is Rob A Music Junkie

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Rob a music junkie who is both childish and indecisive captures what it is like being a thirty-six year old guy who runs an almost-failing record store. Furthermore, his love life is not perfect. In Nick Hornby's novel High Fidelity, Rob struggles with the realities of life oftentimes not being able to unmask the potential he may have. In addition, his girlfriend Laura, just left him for the guy upstairs. Now, Rob is faced with the realities of a failing record store, as well as the pondering question about why Laura left him. Being the music junkie that Rob is, Rob sets out to do what he does best, rearranging his music collection and starting all over. Sooner or later, Rob realizes that picking pieces of a rather predictable record is …show more content…

For instance, in times of stress he sits back and rearranges his music collection for comfort “QUOTE HERE”. This is a rather convenient mindset because Rob enjoys this comfortability of being able to predict things, because when he is unable to predict things, he is rather uncomfortable. In many ways this explains why Rob has a hard time facing realities of life; it is because Rob likes predictability which often means he is in control. The biggest difference between people and records is that people have the tendency to be unpredictable, such as Laura his girlfriend when she points out “QUOTE HERE”; she changed, she was no longer predictable. Even then Rob struggles with the idea that she changed “QUOTE HERE”. This is why he so desperately clings on to this philosophy of life. It gives him a sense of power, but yet certainty that perhaps things can be rewritten even unpredictable things. Furthermore, comfort and control tie hand in hand for Rob. For instance, when he says Djing was his favorite job Rob explained “INSERT QUOTE HERE”. It was his favorite job because he controlled other people, basically making them do whatever he wished. He could slow the music down or speed it up and watch the reactions of people. Rob always feels the need to be in control whom he is because when he is not he turns to self-pity “INSERT QUOTE HERE”. So, comfort is control and uncomfort is no control. In …show more content…

This begins when he meets Charlie, Charlie seems rather high-class and ahead of the game. Rob takes a quick notice of that as well as her friends who seem to follow the same path. Rob says “QUOTE HERE” indicating that his philosophy of life is flawed. Rob realizes that these people are ahead because they faced unpredictable realities therefore also facing unconformability, where he wants to change. He comes to that one point where he saw Laura at her dad's funeral and felt something inside him change “QUOTE HERE”. Also, when Laura dragged him along to see Paul and Michelle, where Rob was not excited about “QUOTE HERE”. Laura sort of rigged him into seeing their record collection because she knew he would love them “QUOTE HERE”. He faces somewhat the realities of life and things seem to shift. Even though Rob is rather wishy-washy and always falling back into old

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