at day he reached a large town and he was glad, because he had a desire to be with people...Siddhartha saw how beautiful she was and his heart rejoiced. (50-51)”.In the beginning siddhartha seemed like a man of great intelligence and wisdom. But how could a man like that, grow into a man who was trapped by “Property, possessions, and riches. (79)”. Lucky for us we know what he was thinking. “His face was still more clever and intellectual than other people’s, but he rarely laughed, and gradually his face assumed the expressions of discontent, which are so often found among rich people- the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. (78)”. Had this been written in third person Objective, then the reader would know nothing more than what he does. You wouldn’t know that he was feeling isolated, and lonely, or that he hated himself. He says he doesn’t fit in with the rich people, but he also isn’t a regular person either.Again why would a man like Siddhartha gamble away all his money? “He derived a passionate pleasure through the gambling away and squandering of wretched money...In no other way could he show ore clearly and mockingly his contempt for the riches, the false deity of businessmen. (79)”. When I first read this chapter I missed many crucial thoughts and I thought that he just liked gambling because it was fun. But when I was skimming through it, I noticed that he didn’t gamble because it was fun, but that it was an outlet for mocking who he had become...
