a 19-year old singer whom he, in his mid-twenties, never gone for because of his shyness, and the other time with an older and married co-teacher who did not return his affections and had complained to their superiors and gotten him kicked out of the university in the process. Moreover, he was a loner who preferred the solitude of his desk, paper, and pen instead of people as companions.

“Penmanship” tells a lot about change, about accepting it and coping with it. The main character’s Parker Vacumatic fountain pain is a representation of the main character himself and embodies his own character traits. Just like his fountain pen, the penman, besides being just plain old, is somewhat narrow-minded and old-fashioned, which can be shown in his preferring to use an antique pen instead of a typewriter or even a ballpoint pen to write letters, and his insistence to use an inconvenient antique fountain pen instead of a ballpoint pen symbolizes his refusal to accept change and to cope with the times. Just like his fountain pen, he is a contradiction to and lives a different world from the one around him. Change, however, still manages to enter his life in the form of Nora. Nora, besides being “young” in contrast to his being “old”, is blind, and is therefore, a whole different world from his own one of being able to see and appreciate the beauty of one’s handwriting. Also, Nora has learned to accept a major change in her life-becoming blind after a fatal accident, and ha

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