I was watching the basketball game with a random encounter last night and it reminded me a little bit of the scene with trashcan man and the kid in the hotel room, but we didn’t have any guns, just fists of pumping action.
The writing around Harold stands out to me some, I think we may be able to learn from that storyline. As I was getting closer to the end of the book, I was realizing, there is only one plot line where a dude gets rejected by a girl, and that makes sense, because of how simple rejection is, it doesn’t really get that complicated, so no need to have other scenes with it, since we already understand it so well.
Harold didn’t really put in the work on himself and he has lots of issues like being emotionally immature, but all the characters were right to be suspicious of him. Usually if a guy gets rejected, he’s not that strong of a person and likely is going to do bad things. Also guys that get rejected were probably bad to begin with.
Maybe we could use what we already know to improve society. If a dude gets rejected, since we know that often means they are evil down on the inside, we could force them to go through a mandatory psych evaluation, and perhaps catch a crime before it happens. We could also consider putting them in jail, then interrogating them, that way we could figure out the bad things they have already done. Maybe we could petition congress?
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by sillywanderer22
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There are two issues with Harold.
The first is that he’s basing his self-esteem on the wrong things. If the only way you can feel good about yourself is the sexual approval of a woman, then you’re probably not going to get many women to approve of you. For the most part, women do not find desperate neediness appealing in a partner.
The second is that while every man gets rejected, most men move on from that rejection rather than getting hung up on it.