The Definition Of Success In The Film

In his poem, “What is Success,” Ralph Waldo Emerson gave priceless insight when he wrote:

First, George’s attentiveness is what led him to be successful since his surroundings influenced him in a positive way. For example on page 11, he says, “I wasn’t any smarter or more special than the guys around me. For some reason, throughout my life I was blessed with people who told me positive things, and I believed in them. I believed my third-grade teacher when she told me that I could go to college and have a great career someday if I just stayed out of trouble.” This shows us that George

The readers are able to take a glimpse into his childhood and adulthood which contrast greatly. For instance, George’s childhood is difficult in ways that can relate to people in the real world. He is brought up in a household where his mother Kathleen’s “humourless regime mask[s her] bitterness far deeper than any of her children and husband imagine.” (92) Kathleen is still “shocked” (92) that she is a wife and a mother so she buries her feelings under “layer upon layer of domestic strictness” (92) hiding her feelings from her children thereafter making them believe that her humourless feelings are just a part of her personality. Because of Kathleen’s views towards the topic of family are bitter, she believes that her epileptic husband should be sent away to an asylum out of pure bitterness rather than care of his well-being. George’s parents do not see eye to eye on this matter. Howard “could not have let himself be witness to the simultaneity of his wife passing him a place of chicken or a basket of hot bread as she worked out her plans to have him taken away.” (128) The feeling of secretly not being wanted by his wife is too hard for him to bare which causes him to abandon his family. Because George witnesses the relationship between his parents crumble and that is when he decides to live a life away from it all, where he raises a family of his own in ways opposite of his own

George Stein grew up in the suburbs of a major East Coast city. Inevitably, every summer between school semesters George likes to work so he can continue he interest-saturated lifestyle which includes showing his girlfriend, Cathy, around to fun events and spending money on his love of hot rods. This semester, after his freshmen year at college, George managed to secure himself a comfortable union job which offers overtime and a paycheck far larger than he could have ever received any previous summer.

The first act of the show introduces us to the struggle of our main character. George struggles with something that many artists struggle with: the need to create great work, often at the cost of other things in life. George’s life is consumed by this, as shown in the number “Finishing the Hat,” where George expresses how his view of the world works.”How you watch the rest of the world from a window, while you finish the hat.” George laments on how his art consumes him and how he can only see the world through a “window.” The problem with the first act is that it never resolves this struggle with George. Without the second act, George never is fully resolved, left in this state of imbalance.

As the story nears the end the past catches up with the present and it goes on to describe George’s dedicated student lifestyle. He writes: “Every morning I get up and I wonder what I might learn that day. You just never know.” George also reflects on the attitude of people these days: “People worry too much. Life is good, just the way it is.”

It is quickly learned that George doesn’t see value in his life or think he has a purpose: “‘I’m stuck here in this mudhole for life, doing the same dull work day after day’” (Van Doren Stern 2). The way George talks about his life builds up the idea that he wants to get out of the small town he lives in, stop working where he does, and have a more exciting life. He talks down to himself and has a very sour outlook on what he does. Calling the town he lives in a mudhole indicates how he wants more than a small town life. George believes that living in a small town directly means life will be small as well. This highlights how he has not yet learned that everything has value including him, his job, and his life in general. He has not been able to value the good parts of his life because he sees the bad in everything.

To me success is accomplishing the goals, doing things the right way, and doing what you love.

George Wilson is an example of a man who has been downtrodden by poverty and labour. In the text he is one of the only characters with an honest job, yet he is trapped in a setting that is 'ghastly'. For this reason, he signifies the idyllic nature of the 'American Dream' through his failure to attain self-made wealth. George exemplifies the idea of an 'ash grey' man due to his lack of wealth and

Charlie, if you didn’t already assume or kind of know, is a wallflower. And because he’s a wallflower, he’s a nice kid. Yet, he has his moments of being really sad. Sam, another main character (one Charlie’s best friends). Sam. Sam is a girl who lost her virginity to her dad’s worker at a very young age. She really is a little messed up in the head, because who wouldn’t be if they went through something like that. (Another best friend of Charlie’s) is gay and is secretly dating the quarterback of the football team, Brad. Patrick is very funny. In the beginning of the book, where Patrick is first introduced, Patrick draws the workshop’s teachers, famous beard, and is referred to the name, “Nothing.” And finally, the famous aunt Helen. Aunt Helen is dead, but plays a major part in this book. Aunt Helen was abused and molested when she was younger. When she grew up, she was able to get away from the family members that molested her, but became a drunk and started using a lot of drugs. Aunt Helen a victim of abuse, soon became an abuser. She took advantage of Charlie, in which later on, Charlie forgives her and changes his life. There is symbolical tunnel that Charlie goes through in the book, and he swears that he feels “infinite” when he goes through

The definition of success is in the eye of the beholder. More than three-fourths of your life is spent working to become successful. People are told during childhood to work as hard as they can so they can grow up and make lots of money. But the word success can be taken in many different ways. Everyone has a different understanding of what success means to them. Generally, success means fulfilling the goals that you set for yourself. For some, success is measured by popularity and riches; for others success is determined by the amount of happiness that they feel.

My philosophy of success is simply being content with your life. To me personality, I still do not know what contentment is to me and that's fine. I can guess it is being independent, with a job I am passionate about and surrounded by people that truly care about me. Success is finding that point in life that, if things stayed like how they are at this moment then it would be alright. I'm not saying to stop improving yourself or that after that point nothing bad or better will happen. People should always try to improve themselves and in reality, bad things will always happen at one point. Therefor my philosophy is to work towards that feeling of contentment. It

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

What is success? Is it a huge house, a fancy car, and a large bank account? Or is it a man with a loving wife, beautiful kids, and a small bank account? The United States is known for the American Dream, but have Americans figured out what those two words really mean. Society seems to believe that success is equivalent to money. The more money an individual acquires, the more successful he or she is. According to society’s definition, one could argue that a drug dealer or hitman is successful. In reality, success has nothing to do with money, but is defined by many terms.

Success is a word that really hard to define, because everyone will have a different definition for this word. In fact, there no exact definition for the word "success". For a student, maybe the success means to pass all courses of the semester; for a business man, signing a importance contract and get a lot of money are successes; and for a president, leading the country to develop and make the people have a better life are success. For me, I also have my own definition for the word "success". When I was a kid, I really want to be a scientist, but after I become mature, my thinking has become more mature and my definition of success also