Being_There_by_Jerzy_Kosinski

Being There by Jerzy Kosinski Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There In social encounters, people in general project a public or “on-stage” self, and we think of it as covering our authentic face- the face behind the social mask. People often act in the opposite way of what they are really thinking in order to impress others. However, Chance, in Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There, couldn’t think or act on his own. His behavior reflects what he has observed on television and in his garden. Chance presents himself to others in such an honest manner. What he shows the public is exactly who he is. He doesn’t have a private or public self; he has only one face- the face of true human nature, which is the product of TV images and his garden. Television created Chance as did the garden. The garden seems to give him physical existence while the television gives him a mental existence. However, this “mental existence” is a false one. Contrary to his life in the garden, in the outside world Chance is a blank page, acceptable to all people because he is like all those characters on television. Because Chance’s behavior depends on what being, there, people, chance, television, media, garden, face, public, person, existence, because, while, wanted, think, social, self, seems, seem, real, president, point, others, one, often, mental, life, kosinski’s, jerzy, however, give, book, behavior, act, write, world, words, wisdom, way, warped, vice, very, valid, utterances, united, unintentional, uninformed, tv, turn, trust, true