Hurbis

Hurbis Hubris: A Pitfall O’Connor uses Julian’s hubris in “everything that rises must converge” to show his downfall. Throughout the story Julian feels he is above his mom and the world. Julian thinks this way because his mom is blind to the fact that the world is changing and her old views are not “correct” anymore. This is ironic because Julian is so caught up in how his mom looks at the world that he can’t see how kind she is by letting him stay with her even though he should be supporting himself. He can’t see her kindness and wants to teach her a lesson. “The law of it was to sacrifice herself after she had first created the necessity to do so by making a mess of things.”(p.11)This is the kindness that Julian cannot see when he judges his mom, which shows his excessive arrogance. During the story Julian has time to “withdrawal” from the world and judge people objectively. He feels superior in this way because of his college education which by the way his mom paid for. “H could not bear to be a part of what was going on around him. From it he could see out and judge hurbis, mom, julian, because, world, way, kindness, mother, education, views, small, said, out, now, kind, julian’s, ignorance, hubris, college, yet, without, withdrawal, tries, time, thinks, teach, talks, story, spite, shows, self, rate, people, old, off, objectively, mothers