In the short story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel keys, do you want to know what happens to Charlie to get smart and what he went through. And his importance to have friends in life. One way that the reader finds out it is important through his friendship with his co-workers. Joe and frank are mean one evidence is that “Everybody laughed and we had a good time and they gave me a lot of drinks” (63). I just don’t understand that why charlie is still frank and joe’s friend. They are mean to him because “anyway i got a bad headache and a lump on my head and i’m black and blue all over”. Real friends will not make fun of other friends. Although charlie thinks that the co-workers are his friend but he was badly mistaken. Later in the story charlie