In the story, Flowers for Algernon, undergoing the operation was a bad idea, and the act was more harmful than helpful. One example of this was Charlie’s fading intelligence, such as when he was “forgetting the things that [he] learned recently”(206).This would foreshadow that like Algernon, Charlie’s intelligence would not last much longer, proving the operation to be almost useless. In the same way, His forgetfulness was just as painful, since he could remember the things he was able to understand and write, but could not comprehend them any longer. Additional proof that the operation was not a good idea was Charlie’s intelligence made him feel isolated. Charlie complains about how nobody will talk to him anymore, and how “It makes the