How Did Flowers For Algernon Fail

Although Daniel Keyes wrote “Flowers for Algernon” with hope for mentally impaired Charlie Gordon, the operation failed with grotesque consequences! After the surgery, Charlie was blown away by the concepts and uncertainties he now understood, negative and positive. He was a human experiment to fix mentally impaired people like himself. He understood the failure and cruelness of the surgery. Charlie suffered the consequence of losing his care-free, stress-free, worry-free nature. The societal conflicts became a major reality for Charlie. He realized that Frank and Joe were not laughing with him but at him. They were not his best friends, as they claimed. He now knew what “pulling a Charlie Gordon” meant. Charlie previously thought it was a positive statement but he could not have been more incorrect. There was a petition at his workplace to have him fired. All but one coworker signed it. They were intimidated by his sudden genius status. Dr.Nemur and Dr.Strauss were
Obviously, the surgery had failed! Ever since Algernon died, Charlie knew he was fated to die as well; he could realistically expect his own death. Charlie, soaring high above intellectual expectations, was still shocked by the ultimate failure of the surgery. The doctors could not repair this devastating, grotesque outcome. Only Charlie, the genius, could find and remedy the surgery’s problematic components. At this point, Charlie did not regret the surgery; never the less, he should not have been the experimental humanoid.
The doctors lead Charlie blindly, but willingly, into the surgery, using him for research. Charlie knew not what his new found knowledge would bring him; despair, doubt, dread. He knew of the doctor’s ignorance to his feelings and human status, and of the surgery ultimately failing. Due to the devastating events that would transpire, Charlie should have refrained from undergoing the