Short Blog #3

“It was the classic mistake, Tod realized, the same one Napoleon had made.” The quote from Chapter 18. As an artist’s perspective, Tod thinks that reality and appearance may line up. Tod realized that he made the same type of mistake as Napoleon did.

He perceived the tension in the theater, the competition between illusion and reality. When Hackett was frustrated by time and space, he made urgent contact with Faye Greene. Hackett’s anxiety and need are reflected by the sets he passes through and the difficulties for each series of conjures. Tod’s feelings for Faye may be a similar reflection between tension, illusion, and reality or how fact and fiction intersect. Tod’s genuine physical attraction while he thinks Greene is totally manufactured narrative. His action is more unlikely to be adolescent love, in my opinion, just a mixture of illusion, delusion, and physical reality. In fact, this isn’t perfectly real.

West’s potential use of these images for bizarre and satirical paintings reveals Tod’s combined fascination, repulsion, and the decaying civilization which Hollywood represents. The author addresses the real world and Hollywood’s fantasy merge indistinguishably. Napoleon’s historically unsuccessful charge and the Hollywood’s incomplete charge symbolized humanity’s blundering towards disaster, his narration foreshadows the end of the novel. In West’s point of view, the world is approaching to two extremes.