2. Conrad’s family, especially his mother, Beth, didn’t help or ease the pain Conrad was feeling during this tragic time. Beth, who seemed to be a determined perfectionist, is constantly concerned with the way people view her and her family. She wishes for everyone to see them as “normal.” At a party her and her husband attended, she got extremely upset that her husband, Calvin, mentioned to another friend that Conrad has been seeing a psychiatrist for help. She seems to have buried her love with Buck, therefore disregarding Conrad because she no longer understands how to love. She can only see things in terms of how they affect her and also feel that everyone thinks in this way, but she is more candid. This deficiency of love and favoritism towards his deceased brother, eas

10. I believe that Conrad’s attempted suicide supports the social theories of Durkeim and Marx. Conrad was needed to succeed by his family, friends and well-to-do community his parents resided. There was nobody for Conrad to turn to during his extreme mental low from Buck’s death. This could be classified as anomic suicide, where Conrad immediately was removed from societies role as a brother. He also didn’t have to have a place in society because his parents were very well off. In Marx’s theory Conrad was also alienated from others. He was frustrated, powerless, disoriented and had a lack of self-realization. Conrad felt like his mother, Beth, didn’t even exist and she showed no affection towards him, but his brother Buck received all the attention and affection for both Conrad and his father. At one point, Beth states that she does not hate Conrad for what he has done for attempting suicide, but that she cannot forgive him for it and Conrad felt that she couldn’t forgive him for surviving. Freud’s theory can be associated with Conrad nearly as much as Durkheim and Marx. Conrad was experiencing repressed anger through the movie and didn’t seem to release it until Dr. Berger provoked him in a session. The existentialist theory doesn’t apply to Conrad since he did feel like life had meaning, he just wasn’t finding it easy to discover and that’s why he went to see Dr. Berger. A composite, synthetic theory can apply to Conrad because he was both socially and psychologically ill, but he didn’t fit into the category (elderly, widowed) of being susceptible to suicide. The preventionist theory doesn’t apply to Conrad because he wasn’t showing conscious or unconscious motives. He wasn’t taking drugs, eating poorly or drinking and it doesn’t seem like he is the kind of boy that believes death is romantic.

7.Conrad seemed to be questioning his place in life and his family situation. It was obvious his mother didn’t want him around and by him visiting Dr

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