Stephen cares too much about what his peers and family think of him that he has to constantly get approval of their feelings, “Are you mad at me?”(Shattered Glass). Stephen feels like if he does not get approval for the decisions he makes then the people in his life will not accept him or love him anymore. Stephen’s childhood and family was very strict and particular on being successful in a “worthy career” which was not journaling according to his parents. His fellow peers and the major editors at the The New Republic look forward to Stephen’s obnoxious story interviews every week and that feeds into the idea that creating fabricated articles are okay as long as they love it. Stephen being an adult definitely knows wrong from right and the lies in his articles can not be brought onto anybody but himself. The people that work with him somewhat play a role in his lying as far as entertaining the idea of his stories that they do not know are
Stephen cares too much about what his peers and family think of him that he has to constantly get approval of their feelings, “Are you mad at me?”(Shattered Glass). Stephen feels like if he does not get approval for the decisions he makes then the people in his life will not accept him or love him anymore. Stephen’s childhood and family was very strict and particular on being successful in a “worthy career” which was not journaling according to his parents. His fellow peers and the major editors at the The New Republic look forward to Stephen’s obnoxious story interviews every week and that feeds into the idea that creating fabricated articles are okay as long as they love it. Stephen being an adult definitely knows wrong from right and the lies in his articles can not be brought onto anybody but himself. The people that work with him somewhat play a role in his lying as far as entertaining the idea of his stories that they do not know are