3) Susan Already Has What Brent Struggles to Gain In the novel entitled Whirligig, Brent Bishop struggles to acclaim acceptance of oneself as well as others. But throughout the story, Bren gains a great deal of wisdom and learns how to appreciate himself. In the short story Hamadi, the protagonist, Susan, already possesses the wisdom that Brent had struggled to gain in Whirligig. One trait that Susan possesses is that she is appreciative of people, and does not judge a person by the outside appearance. She can see deep down into a person and bases her liking of the person on their personality, rather than their hierarchical status. An example of this in Hamadi is when despite one’s first impression of Hamadi (crazy, annoying, a fool), Susan