I really enjoyed flowers forAlgernon. It spoke to a very personal fear of mine, which is losing information, losing understanding. It was excellently well written.

However, I feel as if there was potential that was wasted. I feel as if Algernon has a particularly unceremonious ending, and that there should have been more emphasis placed on his death. Perhaps I am biased, since my expectation was that there was going to be a heavier (at least symbolically) importance placed on Algernon. But after his, again, unceremonious, death, he largely goes unmentioned. Furthermore, I think that Charlie's move to New York is an unsatisfying ending, especially with Algernon being set up as a symbolic microcosm of Charlie himself. I think the story would have been much more satisfying if Charlie had shared in Algernon's fate.