Attire

His neat dark clothes, his white dress shirt and tie (the only tie in the room) are uncompromisingly alien from the aggressively virile informality of the young male students. Most of these wear sneakers and garterless white wool socks, jeans in cold weather, and in warm weather shorts . . . .

                                                          - A Single Man (p. 57)

This is George's outfit being described at his job as a professor, and describing what the male students are wearing. I find this passage kind of sad in a way because George is the only one wearing a suit and tie. Because I know at one point in history it was a given that absolutely everyone would be wearing their Sunday's best for something as little as school. But I guess school back in the late 1800s early 1900s was a rarity to most children, it was a special thing that they would dress up for. And nowadays its just more of an annoyance for most kids/teens to go to school, and they decide to come to school in their pajamas. And I'm not saying we should all look like were going to the Oscar's everyday, its just that we live in a physical and judging world and the first things someone judges when they see you is your appearance so why not make yourself look presentable no matter what your style is? 

Personality Test

My type is INTJ.
     Introverted: 56%       Intuitive: 50%       Thinking: 1%       Judging: 1%

I think I may of did this test wrong, because it was personality's of very smart people, like nothing I could ever do, but who knows I guess its right if I took the test right.

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A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

Pages read this week: 100

Quotes of the Week:

1. "I never hear the noise children make - just as long as it's a happy noise"

2. "What do they think they're up to, here? Well, there is the official answer: preparing themselves for life which means a job and security in which to raise children to prepare themselves for life which means a job and security in which."

3. "From time to time, as he walks, he emits quite loud, prolonged farts."

4. "I am Doris. I am Woman. I am Bitch-Mother Nature."

Freeways

George loves driving the freeways in southern California (he also loves that his commute to his job has now been cut in more than half) racing other vehicles in the far left lane and seeing how fast he can go till traffic stops him. He used a metaphor, that i really liked, for the freeway, comparing it to a river. Saying that newcomers to the freeway would find it scary, almost dangerous. I liked imaging a river, like a white water rapids kind of river, looking at it and knowing if I would step one foot in it I would tumbled over by the rush of water. Also thinking of the little water molecules as the cars, they know that this is an every minute occurrence nothing out of the ordinary, nothing dangerous or scary about it.   

Facade

When George finds himself preparing for the day he talks about creating "George" for the public. The "George"  that everyone expects to find. From his physical appearance and clothing, to how he acts. This is the way everybody knows "George". I feel that all of us, especially high schoolers, put on a facade everyday for their peers just like George does. If I came to school in my pajamas one day people would suspect something was seriously wrong with me. I wouldn't be acting like the person they expected me to be. We're all just hiding behind this layer that we put on every morning so no one will expect anything is wrong with us and we can go on being unnoticed and normal as usual. None of us actually see each other for who we really are, we do the routine and get the hell out of there because in the end all we want to do is move on from this thing called high school, but it seems, even in George's case, that we will always have to put on that facade in our adult life so everything stays normal.

Intro

George, a fifty-eight year old English man who lives in southern California, a professor at  San Thomas State College. He is going through the routines of a normal, ordinary day in the 1960s. During this day he gives his inputs, feelings, and opinions on all past, present, and future events including the death of his partner Jim. George I think is trying to find who is he is now after Jim's passing. He wonders a lot what Jim would think of his actions now if Jim would see him again, especially the way George acts towards his neighbors. His closes neighbors is a perfect couple, Mr. and Mrs. Strunk, who have seven children (Mrs. Strunk, who could of potentially had a very successful career gave it up to bear and raise seven children for Mr. Strunk). These seven children are what make George angry. He sees them as television watching, advertisement jingle singing, carbon copies, that are the makings of the modern world. This anger George has for the kids is something that Jim disliked and knows that he would not approve of this. 

A Single Man

The moment I saw this movie I fell in love with it. A Single Man is the most visually stunning movie I've ever seen. Everything is beautiful from the vibrant colors of certain scenes to even the actors, everything is super gorgeous. This movie is Tom Ford's (the fashion designer) directorial debut and he should really consider making more movies because I would love to see them. So since I loved the movie so much I am now reading the book, which so far is amazing and I can't wait to read the rest.