I've never disliked a main character of a book so much. Not even K. from The Trial. No, Tommy Wilhelm from Seize the Day takes the cake. All he does is complain about his sad pathetic life, and expects his uppity father to sympathize with him and help him out. Yet he can't even help himself. All he does is make poor decisions he knows will turn out badly. You think he'd learn. I mean, he moved to California to become an actor against his better judgement. And we all know how that turned out. He got married to a crazy psycho lady against his better judgement. Now she's taking all his money. And now he wants to go into business with this somewhat shady "doctor". Admittedly, I'm only half way through the book, so I don't know how this all pans out; this is merely just a mid-book rant. I just want to tell him to take a shower and move to the country if he hates the city so much. I want to tell him to go find a job and make some money if his lack of it is causing him so much trouble. Stop complaining and do something about it. Jeez.
Ok, that's all for now.
-mmr
Out of Sheer Curiosity...
16 years ago
2 comments:
What didn't you like about Herr K.? I didn't see a huge character flaw with him, but I know what you are talking about with Wilhelm. The general notion of how continuously whines about his misfortunes wears thin very quickly. At the same time he is a rather interesting character because of his mentality after all the pitfalls he has encountered, sort of an idealized view of life where one would least expect it...That being said...I agree I really don't care much for him in the least.
There wasn't really anything wrong with K., I just disliked The Trial in general and everything associated with it. But at least K. did something about his problems. He didn't just sit around like "ohhh the world hates me, this isn't fair" blah blah blah. He tried to fix it anyway he could. Wilhelm tries to take the easy way out and it never works. It bothers me..obviously.
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