Benjamin Hoff's 'The Picnic': An Analysis
“Scholars as busy ants spoiling the picnic of life, rushing back and forth to pick up the bits and pieces dropped from above.” (Benjamin Hoff pg 24). This quote is quite significant to the work as a whole because it depicts the lives of scholars. Typically scholars are seen as perfectionist and because of their over excessive attempts to make a perfectly balanced life they ruin everything in the process. When one attempts to go back and adjust every bit in their life they will not be capable of enjoying the moments that they have. Thus the picnic is therefore ruined. The metaphor at the beginning of this passage is very realistic since intelligent people are busy like ants always putting their mind in places where their mind doesn’t have to