Poor Fish Moravia

The short story “Poor Fish” is an entertaining novel written by the talented author Alberto Moravia. The story follows the life of a young man, whom lacked many physical attributes that society adores. He struggles in accepting himself, and often needs reassurance on his qualities. One day he meets a young lady who finds him irresistible, and treasures all of his quirks. However, his self deprecating thoughts leave him insecure and constantly searching for recognition from others. Moravia portrays the young man in “Poor Fish” as someone who is in constant self doubt about himself, and it effects the way the character lives, his life is in constant quarrel because of his lack of self esteem.

The young man in the story is constantly looking for reassurance. He asks his girlfriend quite frequently for compliments, and encouraging words to help boost his diminutive ego. The author shows the struggle taking place in the characters thoughts by his need for such words, making it obvious on how the character feels about himself. The author shows how the character is at a war with himself through not only the characters thoughts, but also with his words. However, the character is gifted enough to have such a loyal companion who sticks by him even when times are
She convinced her boyfriend to talk back to the strangers who hurt their feelings. The young man felt propelled to act out, to keep up with his girlfriend's high expectation of him, so he lowers himself and begins an argument with the rude couple who had humiliated them. In a sore turn of events, the mean couple concurs the argument places the young main character onto the back of an elephant. After several minutes of holding onto the elephants back for dear life, he slips off into the mud. As he fell to the ground his ego fell with him, leaving him utterly humiliated and