Post four

As I continue to read more of the novel I am beginning to see more human characteristics in the narrator. As I have stated before, I believe that the narrator is of above average intelligence because of his desire to understand himself and his knowledge that he is not coming to the correct conclusions. Now I think that his intelligence is what is holding him back, which goes back to the idea of the danger of consciousness. In that he is to conscious of the world to be able to function in it properly, or to be conscious of the smaller things anyone else would notice. This is what causes the issue in his old classmates dinner, other then the fact that he acts fairly rudely. The narrator is too preoccupied with complex thoughts about himself that he does not seem to have space in his brain to react normally to social situations, which in the end will only bring about more questions on his end.