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Hi, need to submit a 1250 words essay on the topic # 2: Reader-Response I can relate, Comparing Lives and Experiences.As the story reveals how he became indifferent towards others, it makes me ponder

Hi, need to submit a 1250 words essay on the topic # 2: Reader-Response I can relate, Comparing Lives and Experiences.

As the story reveals how he became indifferent towards others, it makes me ponder on my own experience of indifference.

Indifference is fairly common to all. According to Meriam-Webster Online Dictionary, indifference is the “lack of interest in or concern about something.” This feeling could arise and vary from one person to another based on the person’s experiences. People who undergo too much pain are more likely to feel indifferent. Everything depends on the emotional wound that they sustain. If a person sustains too much pain, there is more possibility that he will be more indifferent. In the story, Harry shows indifference as he does his experiments without pity on the newborn monkeys and their mothers. He conceals his emotions by not responding to affection from his colleagues. Also, he avoids visiting his wife who is suffering from cancer.

Like Harry, I also feel indifferent from time to time. Most people do when they need to. If I think that something will not do me any good, I usually avoid such situation. There are times when I have to decide whether to go with my friends or stay at home, doing nothing. Surprisingly, I would choose staying home not because I am busy but because I do not feel like I am about to lose anything if I do not go. I seem indifferent to my friends and sometimes even my family by not caring if they have fun or not. I just feel like it is none of my business to care about them all the time.

In contrast, Harry has serious reasons to feel indifferent. His indifference is understandable although it was not directly stated in the story. Millet simply implies that all of Harry’s experiences could have led him to be indifferent. Harry indulges too much on work and avoids affection because if he allows emotions to occupy him, he will be preoccupied with it and will not function the way he should.

Mainly, Harry is led to indifference by his profession.

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