...Both novels offer insight into how the characters describe their experience while on drugs. However, it is also valuable to analyze the character’s commentary about their addictions. In Requiem for a Dream, Sara Goldfarb, a television addict, relays her internal monologue as she sits watching an infomercial. Unlike the rest of the characters, she has a behavioral addiction which is a a form of addiction that involves a compulsion to repeatedly perform a rewarding non-drug-related behavior: “She gradually became aware of how dumb the damn show was she was watching and she stared at it, wondering how in the hell they could put anything so absurdly infantile and intellectually and esthetically insulting on television…and she continued to...
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...Case Study: Sara Goldfarb Case Study: Sara Goldfarb 2 Sara Goldfarb is an elderly widow who lived alone in a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn New York. She was slightly overweight, but otherwise she was relatively healthy. Sara had a few friends in her complex, but expressed feeling useless and lonely. She had one son named Harry who was the only family she had, but he rarely visited her. Sara loved Harry, but at the same time he frightened her. His struggle with drug addiction caused him to bully her and resulted in him frequently taking her television to get money for drugs. She attempted to prevent this by padlocking her television to the radiator, but she always gave in to him due to her fear. She suffered with the humiliation of having to retrieve her television from the hock shop regularly and also dealt with financial strain that this causes her. She refused to report her son to the police, because he was all she has left in the world. Most of her free time was spent alone in her apartment watching television and eating. Sara would refer to her deceased husband Seymore periodically, but up until recently she was in touch with reality. Sara received a phone call advising her that she was selected as a possible contestant on a television show, which seemed to have given her a renewed purpose for her life. She reminisced about the past and happier times; and became...
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