The Perks of Being A Wallflower
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- Pierce VolpeThe Perks of Being A Wallflower Storyboard10/3/2022
- Stephen Chbosky shows how one may never know what someone is going through by the personal trauma experienced by Charlie in The Perks of Being A Wallflower.
- In the book Charlie details one of his emotional traumas. He explains how he blames himself for his aunts death. It starts with his aunt whispering in his ear. She says, “‘I’m going to buy your birthday present.’ That’s the last time I ever saw her. I like to think my Aunt Helen would now have that good job she was studying for. I like to think she would have met a good man. I like to think she would have lost the weight she always wanted to lose without dieting. Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can’t stop thinking what I know. And i know my aunt Helen would still be alive today if she bought me one present like everybody else. She would be alive if i were born on a day that didn’t snow. I would do anything to make this go away.I miss her terribly. -92 Throughout the entire book Charlie never tells his friends about this. He never tells anyone he blames himself. They have no clue how hard this time is on him. Only his mother has somewhat of an understanding
- Back in the 1990’s there wasn’t a refined care system for emotional trauma. In fact, many people would just not tell anyone at all. Therapists were available to help and they did. However, they weren’t as refined as today. Psychoanalysis has come a long way since then. During that time there was almost a list of things to find out about your patient. Now it’s more of get to know them and it will reveal what the list should be. It is more adaptable. Charlie experienced this with his therapist who was trying to help him. He mentions how this therapist is better than his previous ones. However, he also mentions how his therapist only asks him questions about when he was younger. Charlie says, “I told my psychiatrist about the book and Bill and about Sam and Patrick and all their colleges,but he just keeps asking me questions about when I was younger. The thing is I feel that I’m just repeating the same memories to him. I don’t know. He says it’s important. I guess we’ll have to see.”-95(PDF)This just goes to show the problem with his psychiatrist. Maybe Charlie didn’t need to fix his old problem, but realize he can move forward and be open with people. It’s not about knowing, it’s understanding.
- Charlie throughout the entire book is struggling to fit in and participate. He starts trying to participate more after a conversation he has with Bill. During this conversation, Bill mentions how he notices that Charlie doesn’t participate and substitutes it for thinking. Charlie recalls this conversation as, ““Do you always think this much, Charlie?” “Is that bad?” I just wanted someone to tell me the truth. “Not necessarily. It’s just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.” “Is that bad?” “Yes.” “I think I participate, though. Don’t you think I am?” “Well, are you dancing at these dances?” “I’m not a very good dancer.” “Are you going on dates?” “Well, I don’t have a car, and even if I did, I can’tdrive because I’m fifteen, and anyway, I haven’t met a girl I like except for Sam, but I am too young for her, and she would always have to drive, which I don’t think is fair.””-17(PDF) After this conversation the conflict begins. Charlie, after this, tries and struggles to participate in everything. After this Charlie starts to really get involved in life and becomes a new person.
- In the epilogue, Charlie is in the hospital and when the doctors are asking him questions, he figures something out that even he didn't know. It was a repressed memory. It was part of his problem all along. He figures out that his dreams about his aunt Helen were true. Charlie says, I don’t really want to talk about the questions and the answers. But I kind of figured out that everything I dreamt about my aunt Helen was true. And after a while, I realized that it happened every Saturday when we would watch television.-117(PDF) This relates back to the beginning of the book when Bill says, “Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve.”-17(PDF) This event has put a heavy weight on Charlie's self-worth. He degraded himself and limited his social potential. Nobody even had a clue about this. Not even his parents.
- On page 92 Charlie mentions how his aunt died. Charlie starts off with the last words she says. He remembers it as, “‘I’m going to buy your birthday present.’ That’s the last time I ever saw her. I like to think my aunt Helen would now have that good job she was studying for. I like to think she would have met a good man. I like to think she would have lost the weight she wanted to lose without dietin
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