My thoughts...

I know, I'm a few minutes late, but I've bee pressed for time tonight with other stuff. Anyway, I was really thinking about what you (Ms. Siegel) had said in class today and found myself noticing a lot of things. Particularly I was noticing the depiction of America as a character. The way it was described, it made the scenery almost come to life. I also noticed the tarantula, and knew it was very symbolic, but I'm not quite sure what exactly it stood for: I was a bit too preoccupied being mortified, the arachnophobe I am. But I think possible it could have been the looming appearance of responsibility, because it seemed like as he got there, it kept looming closer, and once he had left Terry, it was like he had hit rock bottom. I also noticed how where he is had a lot to do with his mood. He was starving when they were driving through nowhere, and then when he got to Times Square, he seemed a little mad, like in the crazy sense, as he was standing there in the middle of rush hour. Then there was his final realization of what his life had become, how everybody else had found their place except for him. My heart really went out to him then, and I majorly sympathized with him. That seemed to be when the responsibility really hit him. I could be using the wrong term, as I feel there is a better word than responsibility, but that's all I can come up with at the moment.