Julian's Everything That Rises Must Converge
In Everything That Rises Must Converge, Julian’s character portrays a condescending, disrespectful and prejudices man who believes to be a liberal man because he went to college and is living during the civil right movement.
Julian seems very angry, depressed and he feels that in spite of his mother’s struggles to bring him up, he turns out to be better than she was. Julian resents the fact that they had to struggle, although his mother was brought up in a wealthy family, Julian “It occurred to him that it was he, not she, who could have appreciated it. He preferred its threadbare elegance … whereas she had hardly known the difference. She called her insensitivity “being adjustable” (O’Conner 3).
Julian’s believes that he was an understanding
Julian seems very angry, depressed and he feels that in spite of his mother’s struggles to bring him up, he turns out to be better than she was. Julian resents the fact that they had to struggle, although his mother was brought up in a wealthy family, Julian “It occurred to him that it was he, not she, who could have appreciated it. He preferred its threadbare elegance … whereas she had hardly known the difference. She called her insensitivity “being adjustable” (O’Conner 3).
Julian’s believes that he was an understanding