Critiquing the diary of Jules Renard
Jules Renard seems to have had a pretty full life. He grew up with a distant father, "His father stopped talking to his wife after Jules was born...remained largly indifferent to his son..." His mother appears to bit quite an eccentric, "a bigot...a compulsive talker and fibber." But it seems later in life, he was happy. This section seems to be written near his wedding day; "If I were a bird, I would sleep only in the clouds." It seems to me, Jules is expressing a feeling of great happiness. But then it almost seems that he slips out of that excitment.
He felt that love had become just another unimportant expression, easy come, easy go. It is obvious that Jules was an extremely greatful man for all he had been blessed with, and tried to appeal to others to be more appreciative as well. Through all of this, he never seemed to lose his appreciation of it all, of even being alive. " This is my favorite, "I cannot look at the leaf of a tree without being crushed by the universe. The thing itself is lost, drowned in a verbal deluge. all my forced parodixes, my hatred of the conventional, my contempt for the commonplace, do not prevent me from turning soft on the first day of spring. " That line seems to say that regardless of whether it's a leaf, or the entire universe, they are both of greatness. you get your washing done, and a pair of shoes.
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