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Post by Meagan Currie on Jun 1, 2024 18:01:36 GMT
After doing some outside research on the story, I want to focus on the patron in the café. The author notes that he is physically deaf but there is also another sort of deafness to the man. He tried to commit suicide and is apparently always drunk. He appears to replace his empty feeling with alcohol but even still, it isn’t going to satisfy him. Even with his wealth, the man still feels empty. Do you think this is an example of an existential crisis? Or has he just given up? Would this be nihilism or existentialism?
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Post by mjunious on Jun 3, 2024 17:44:54 GMT
I think where nihilist believe the individual's existence is the meaning, existentialist believe that meaning has to be created by the individual. My reading of the patron's actions are more existential because, sadly, the drinking has become his meaning, as his routine at the cafe would let us believe. Because we know a little about his life; he has money, family. Existentialism would have us choose what we as individuals find meaningful, which is the tragedy of the old man: that he has chosen alcohol over the other things in his life. In the end, as existentialism would tell us, it does not really matter because just like the waiters, we will all ultimately die.
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