Art & Identity in New Orleans

The book The Moviegoer follows the story of Binx who is unhappy and bored with his life. Binx is a young man who is going on a “search” to find some way to escape the feeling of “everydayness” of life. He doesn’t quite know how to start this search or what exactly he is searching for but it led to him learning about many philosophies and point of views about life. His Aunt Emely explaining that the purpose for human existence is to “do what little he can and do it as he can”. Binx’s search is not far fetched from what most humans experience in this world, boringness of the mundane life. The ending of this book was pretty dissapointing because I was hoping that in the end he would find the answer he looking for with the search but in the end he did exactly what he said he didn’t like a movies. He said he doesn’t like that the character starts off as an outcast on their own search for their purpose but they later fall in love and forget about his search, that’s exactly what Binx did which is ironic to me.