ENCW 205 Fall 2021
Posted in The Moviegoer on Dec 15th, 2021
The Moviegoer, in my opinion, is a softly tragic story that demonstrates the unfulfillment of society’s focus on the arbitrary and the lack of intrinsic value that comes with the constraints of falsity. John “Binx” Bolling is a character who rejects these notions and has seen beyond the illusions of living for the mundane. He prefers […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Oct 28th, 2021
In Walker Percy’s book, The Moviegoer, the main character Binx seems like any ordinary womanizing man. From the title, I expected he would be an avid movie watcher instead of a self-proclaimed film enthusiast. The book is well written and I believe it shows how well Binx is written by my distaste for him as […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Oct 26th, 2021
[posted on behalf of a student] In Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer the main character, Binx, has a very close relationship with his half-brother, Lonnie, who is disabled and uses a wheelchair. Binx says, “He is my favorite, to tell the truth. Like me, he is a moviegoer. He will go see anything. But we are […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Oct 23rd, 2021
On the back flap of The Moviegoer, Walker Percy’s author bio states that before he became a writer he converted to Catholicism. Before he began writing about a search, he conducted his own. Biographical literature on Walker Percy includes his quotations on the matter of his conversion. When asked why he joined the Church, Percy answered, “I […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Oct 22nd, 2021
As a self-proclaimed expert film watcher, I expect so much more from the protagonist whom I thought I could relate to. Instead, Percy’s Binx Bolling was irritating and uninteresting, a do-nothing, and I wasn’t won over by his frequent jaunts to a movie theater. Initially, I expected to have that constant pull from reality on […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Oct 22nd, 2021
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy is interestingly named as the novel itself has less to do with an avid film enthusiast and more to do with a man who is fixated on finding the meaning of life. Jack “Binx” Bolling, also known as the moviegoer, is a stock and bond broker in 1950s New Orleans […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Oct 21st, 2021
When we are introduced to the main character Binx at the beginning of The Moviegoer, Binx’s character is a complex one but passive as well. From the beginning, Binx has a passive nature of observing things in the world around him. Binx is directionless and his treatment of women is less stan stellar. “Linda becomes […]
Posted in The Moviegoer on Oct 21st, 2021
When it came to reading The Moviegoer, I can safely say that I struggled. I had initially read it once, but then went back and skimmed through it again when we spent more time on A Streetcar Named Desire than originally planned. Both times, I really struggled reading through this book, and after Tuesday’s class, […]