The Kugelmass Episode Analysis

Nothing’s ever perfect! In the story “The Kugelmass Episode” the main theme is that people don’t want what they already have yet, they want what they will never have. This story portrays a life of a man who is not happy at all in his second marriage go around. His desire for something that he will never fully succeed puts him in a more miserable state than what he was before. The development of Mr. Kugelmass unhappy life in "The Kugelmass Episode" reveals the grass is not always greener.
“Kugelmass, a professor of humanities at City College, was unhappily married for the second time.” In the story Mr. Kugelmass wants something more exciting in his life. He is not happy at all being in the marriage, but he states that he does not really have the money for a divorce. Kugelmass says, “who suspected she’d let herself go and swell up like a beach ball?” I feel as though in the story he feels as if all his options or choices in his life are gone. This relates to life in so
Kugelmass meets a magician that allows him to travel into any book that he could ever want to, but when it goes bad he does not want to have to accept it. “What do you want me to say? I’m working on it night and day. As far as your personal anxiety goes, that I can’t help you with. I’m a magician, not an analyst.” I feel as though Mr. Kugelmass was afraid as if he was going to be stuck with the mistress and have to deal with his wife for life. She returns back into the book and he says that he will never do it again. Mr. Kugelmass states that he is done with affairs forever. Yet he comes back one afternoon and wants to go into another book one more time. “There was a dull explosion, followed by a series of crackling noises, and a shower of sparkles.” I feel as though this relates to life because people do not know when to stop until it is too late. Being unrealistic about something will only turn out badly in the end. If one cannot be realistic about life then one will not go