B.Wordsworth
“B. Wordsworth” In this short story by, V. S. Naipaul, we see the difference in races. For example, B. in Wordsworth means Black and he states that his brother was White Wordsworth. We never know what happens to W. Wordsworth since the narrator doesn’t go into detail. We could say that this man is a poet or he is either crazy. It seems that he is more of a poet in the way he sees things around him. For example, “He said, “I want to watch your bees.” Later on in the story we see him and the boy looking at the stars. The poet as he calls himself tries to live his life at the fullest like Carpe Diem. At times we see that B. Wordsworth was an intellectual man since it seems he can speak English better than the rest of the people in the story. It is ironic how he says, I have time; and he ends up dying. There seems to be a large relationship that the boy and B. Wordsworth have. They seem to spend a great amount of time and as weird as it may seems it seems B. Wordsworth is like a father to the boy. Many people have a tradition in where men don’t cry, but the poet, B. Wordsworth tells the boy, you can cry if you are a poet. Even though at the end he tells the boy he is lying about the stories, they might be real. In his story of the girl and boy poet, it shows him and probably his wife that died like he said. I guess he didn’t want the little boy to suffer since he had become great friends with him. Sometimes you know the truth to things but we don’t want people to know about them. We see that today, especially since I have passed through this with my grandma. Doctors usually don’t tell you everything that is usually wrong with you since they don’t want to make you feel bad. In my case, my grandma probably knew it was time for her to leave, like B. Wordsworth in the story. Both of them didn’t want the people around them to be worrying. I guess we all have our two sides, where on one we use to try to hide things. The way B. Wordsworth treated the boy seemed to help