I noticed something ironic the other day when I first started reading The Moviegoer. In the first few pages, Binx states, “I am a model tenant and a model citizen and I take pleasure in doing all that is expected of me.” The irony? The fact that although he may do all the things he is supposed to and strays from the things that are “bad,” he actually doesn’t enjoy doing all that is expected of him. What I mean is that what is expected of Binx is to just do the normal things in life, but he would rather go on his “search” for a meaning that is greater than what is in a normal life.
I just find it funny that his claim is something which is opposite from what he actually does.
I commented on Danielle’s What Mitchell Said.
It seems as though our pal Binx knows there is something to be sought after, but cannot free himself from his own everydayness and false emotion to find it..
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