Monday, September 15, 2008

Gopnik

This essay didn't really have much of an affect on me. Gopnik describes his daughter who has a peculair imaginary friend who always is to busy to play with her. To him he represenst the average New Yorker who is always on the run and never has time to see his or her friends unless they run into each other for lunch or share the same taxi. when Gopnik realizes that this is what his daughter has made her imiganary friend out to be he goes into depth's of why we don't have time to see our friends face to face. When he figures out that technology has played a critical role in this he makes himslef look like he has cured cancer. Like no else figured this out before him and now that he has made this discovery we will all be able to manage to make some time for our friends. Many of us realized this information we before this essay was published and it comes as no shock to us.

1 comment:

Lauren K. Hansen said...

Gopnik's tone may have been a bit off - as you suggest. In my opinion, this piece is too long and drawn out - and could have been much more entertaining if some of the lengthy analysis was cut.