BigT
November 30, 2010, 3:00am
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Markxxx:
But Charlie Brown is a passive agressive jerk. He constantly whinges about having no friends when it’s clear he had lots of them. He constanlty fouls up baseball games yet the kids like him enough to let him play. Yet he fails to see that as a good thing but rather bitches about not being a great baseball player, instead of being grateful the other kids, let him play at all.
Several times, Linus, Lucy and Schroeder respond to his his questino, “What would you do if you felt no one liked you,” by saying “I hate that answer” when they all tell him, “I’d examine myself and change what is wrong.”
He’s selfish and unfeeling, he constantly whines about that “Little Red Haired Girl” doesn’t even know he exists, while ignoring both Pepperming Patty and Marcie, and driving them to probably lesbian
And the whole point of the story was that you do things for the sake of doing them and in the end you will see win or lose the world didn’t end and you were richer for the experience.
I mean we do glorify winners, somewhat ridiculously, look at Michael Phelps, who spent pretty much his entire life traing to be able to swim form one side of the pool to the other faster than anyone else.
That’s ludicrous when you think of it, but that’s how society is. And that is the point, real achivement and growth doesn’t come form a ridiculous exercise of memorizing a word you can just as easily look up in a dictionary.
But as you can tell, I never found Charlie Brown to be a very sympathetic character
Seeing as he’s described as nearly the perfect example of someone with depression, you basically just said that all depressed people are selfish jerks. And surely by now the board knows my opinion on that.