The Ethics Of Ambiguity In Forrest Gump

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In Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity, she talks about the characteristics of a “serious man.” Some characteristics of this type of person is that they “put nothing into question.” This reminds me of Forrest Gump. Forrest never really questioned anything or anyone. He wholeheartedly accepted people for who they were rather than who they appeared to be. Forrest had accepted his childhood sweetheart Jenny for who she was for years, disregarding all her flaws and shortcomings. When Forrest met Bubba, who ended up becoming Forrest’s best friend, Forrest did not judge Bubba by the way he talked or the way that he looked. Even after his old General, Dan, had lost his legs, Forrest never looked at him differently. “The things that matter