In the short story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, the main character, Charlie Gorden, had an operation to become smarter. He volunteered to have the operation, just wanting to fit in with everyone else. Although the operation made him smarter, it made his life unhappy and it wasn’t even permanent. Charlie was better off not having the operation at all. The operation may have made Charlie smarter, but it made him unhappy as well. According to the short story “Flowers for Algernon” it states in progress report 12-April 30 “Now I’m more alone than ever before.” This is because everyone at his job except for one person wants him gone, even the people he thought were his friends. It also states in the June 30 progress report “He feels guilty”. They all do the same. But I don’t blame anyone. I knew what might happen. But how it hurts.” It hurts because he just wanted to be smart like everyone else and then he became smart, but it didn’t last long. His mind started to deteriorate and he was becoming dumb again, even when he tried his hardest to stay smart. …show more content…
It states in the short story “Flower for Algernon” in progress report June 22 “I’m forgetting things that I learned recently.” It also states “I have to look up even simple words in the dictionary now and it makes me impatient with myself.” This gives proof that his mind is becoming more unintelligent because before he had the operation he also couldn’t spell very