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Character Identification: The Graduate 1967 "Plastics." Although Thesis

Character identification: The Graduate (1967) "Plastics." Although The Graduate was made in 1967, it is difficult not to identify with the protagonist Benjamin Braddock. Benjamin is a recent college graduate, adrift in the world and uncertain of his life's purpose. Benjamin finds himself constantly pressured by the adults in his life to select a stable career path and to settle down. Benjamin is disturbed by the emptiness and misery of the adults around him, but he is not sure about how to find a new way to live. He wants to please his parents but he does not want to become like his parents.

First and foremost, I identify with Benjamin because we are at similar life stages. We are no longer young adolescents who feel confident that our parents know what to do, yet we are uncertain of our own values. We seek objective, wise counsel from an outside authority, but we also known that...

Older adults have made a substantial life investment in the traditional, suburban American Dream. Even though we may not feel this is right for us, we will have to forge ahead on a path of financial and personal independence.
Benjamin's choices feel very limited -- does he choose to sublimate his creativity and go into the production of "plastics," as he is urged to do at a party by an older guest? If not, what is the viable alternative? I feel personal and family pressures to get a good job by the time I graduate from college. My dilemma is slightly different than Benjamin in that I am more worried about finding a decent-paying job to pay off my student loans. Spiritual fulfillment as well as financial solvency seems like a far-off dream. But both of us are similarly dissatisfied with the choices before us and wish there was another way to 'grow up.'

Benjamin also finds himself frustrated by the lies of adult society. The mother of the…

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