FALL 2019 3-week term
Posted in The Moviegoer on Sep 12th, 2019
While The Moviegoer was very hard and time-consuming for me to get through, I did find myself relating to Binx. When reading novels with neurodivergent main characters I often find myself trying to diagnose them with personality disorders. This probably comes from my own struggle with my disorder and my need to find things, people, […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Sep 5th, 2019
“What do you love? What do you live by?” These questions were thrown at Binx by his aunt Emily. Until this moment, I saw someone like Binx who was going against the norm and a preset life for him. He was ambitious, and he was taking his time. He was a rebel and he knew himself. […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Sep 5th, 2019
The Moviegoer was a book that I personally was able to relate to in an odd way. In class, it was mentioned how everyone hated this book and that it was terrible, so admitting that, somehow, in a way, I was able to sympathize with the piece is a complicated truth that in class I […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Sep 5th, 2019
My favorite thing about novels is that they are written by novelists. Most artists, though it is not exclusive to this category of people, in my experience find it incredibly difficult to block out the eternal question of why in their everyday lives. I view this quality as an intrinsic part of the artist’s lifestyle, though […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Sep 5th, 2019
First off, I want to say that this book was really hard for me to read. The beginning of this book sent me spiraling down a rabbit hole in which I questioned my entire existence and purpose as a human. I basically had an existential crisis at every page turn. Binx was talking about this […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Sep 5th, 2019
Binx Bolling has lived an uneventful life up until the plot of The Moviegoer and experiences joy in the mundane (“I am a model tenant and a model citizen and take pleasure in doing all that is expected of me.”) as well as in television and film (“I too once met a girl in Central […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Sep 3rd, 2019
The biggest difference between Binx Bolling and Edna Pontellier is that, in the end, Binx’s sudden sense of fulfillment comes from his acquiring a partner, whereas in Edna’s case, it is the ultimate imprisonment. However, it isn’t necessarily Binx’s love for Kate, and vice versa, that brings them together: “Feeling tender toward her, I embrace […]