Kaylee NFTU Post 3

Part II switches gears as we travel back in time to the narrator’s young adulthood. At the start I hoped to discover more of the narrator’s past in regards to any correlation of events to his ideals and way of life. It was no surprise that in his youth the narrator was a man of great insecurity and isolation. He discusses his experiences at work and other areas of his life. To me at this point in the narrator’s life he is emphasizing an experience that everyone undergoes as they begin their transition into adulthood – detachment. “I am alone and they are everyone,” he says. At one point in everyone’s life they feel different than everyone else on a certain level and because of this, loneliness may ensue. In part II, the narrator is insecure and out of place, lost. He is consumed by his thoughts and feels like a slave to the world around him. In contrast, part I depicts the narrator as confident in his ideals and content in his situation.