In the short story "The Judgement", I feel as if Georg had an imaginary friend in Russia. I don't believe the person he was writing his letters to was real. Why wouldn't Georg want to tell his friend about his engagement? Why would he hide his friend from his fiancee and father?
Or maybe this friend is the only person who knows about an illness Gerog has, due to his suicide at the end of the story.
But if thats not it, than, I don't know. Why would Georg want to take his life if it seemed to be going so well. Georg said it himself, he was doing well. He didn't want to brag about it to his friend studying abroad.
The only events I see connecting to Gerog's suicide is the death of his mother, and the poor health care of his father. But still, he was engaged to be married and seemed happy.
I feel as if Gerog was just trying to cope with his own feelings, and maybe writing these letters to his "friend" made him feel good about himself. Making up this story about his friend, making it seem as if his life was way better. I don't feel as if that altercation with his father is the real reason as to why he jumped and killed himself. There had to be more.
This story really does make you question a lot towards the end.
I agree, I think that Georg's friend might not be real because the father asks him who the friend is. I also believe that if the friend is real, then maybe he is related to the main character in some ways.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more about George's friend. For some reason I felt as though his friend was made up, it was probably just something he had in his head. I was just a little confused about his father, claiming that he wrote the friend. Maybe he was lying but honestly, the whole situation of him hiding things of his personal life, from the only person he really spoke too was a little sketchy to me.
ReplyDeleteMaybe. But isn't that then kind of cheap that Kafka created an imaginary friend and there are no real clues about it in the story? Is it so hard to believe that someone would have a friend who he doesn't share intimate details with? Do you all tell your friends everything?
ReplyDeleteMaybe. But isn't that then kind of cheap that Kafka created an imaginary friend and there are no real clues about it in the story? Is it so hard to believe that someone would have a friend who he doesn't share intimate details with? Do you all tell your friends everything?
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