Resiliency And Adversity In The Face

Resiliency helps workers to stay on the correct path to get a job done. Those who are resilient resist temptation and stay focused on the given task. Rowan exhibits the resiliency throughout the story and this virtue is what separates him from the other candidates for the job such as the clerk. The narrator goes on to ask, “Will the clerk quietly say, “Yes, sir,” and go do the task? On your life, he will not.” This quote shows how the typical man responds to adversity and it is also where we can separate Rowan from the common man. The various questions that the clerk asks such as, who was he? Which encyclopedia? And where is the encyclopedia? Distract him from achieving the job that he was given. Rowan stares adversity in the face and does