The Blindness of Georgie and “Fuckhead”

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The Blindness of Georgie and “Fuckhead” In the story “Emergency”, Denis Johnson’s main characters, Georgie and the narrator also known as the “Fuckhead” in this story, who were drugged in this story, are essentially blind to the world while still having the ability to see; Georgie representing life or the giver of life who is blindly living life joyously and blindly saving lives, and the narrator who is blinded by his own beliefs living a nonchalant, meaningless and sad life, who after spending almost an entire day with Georgie, regains his “sight” through blindness and discovers his own flaws. In this essay, I will be talking about how differently blind they are from one another and how the narrator regains his sight in this story. Both the characters were pretty different from one another with respect to life and death. The first difference between them is identified at the beginning of this story where Georgie was mopping the floor which he thought was covered with blood but according to the narrator the floor was clean; Georgie cried “There’s so much goop inside of us, man, and it all wants to get out.” (Johnson 36). In this part of the story, the blood represents death and According to Georgie, death is everywhere around him and he is bothered by this fact and that’s why is the one striving and working hard to clean it all up whereas the floor seemed fine to the narrator. Another instance can be recognized in the rabbit part of the story where Georgie runs over a pregnant rabbit and kills her. In this part of the story, the author definitely made his “life giving character” kill a pregnant rabbit, but in doing so, he saved eight little miniature rabbits temporarily at least. Later on, the narrator killed them carelessly. This is another instance of the story that Georgie gave life to eight bunnies whereas the narrator took away those lives. Another

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