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Why do so many people think Stoner was a failure?

>> No.12336614

>>12336304
It's never that black and white.
Yes, he had his fair share of failures on life: staying with his nut of a wife, remaining silent as she stole his daughter away from him, passively allowing the older professor (can't remember his name now) to stall him professionally.
But he also had beautiful moments and he was happy. He found true love, even if it were later in his life, he genuinely loved his work, and even if it wasn't known, he wrote his book.
No one is ever "a failure", even if they fail.

he did kind of rape his wife though yikes

>> No.12336657
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12336657

/lit/ likes the worst Bildungsromane.
Same reason "No Longer Human" is a disappointment.
Ill make a trilogy of /lit/s disappointment trilogy
>maybe rather call it overrated

>> No.12336670

>>12336657
Offer yours up

>> No.12336672

>>12336304
He wasn’t a Napoleon or an Alexander

>> No.12337476

Because the book is about his problems, he found something he loved (literature and teaching) and spent his life doing it, the book doesn't give a lot of importance to these things. We only know in detail about one of his lectures.