Charlie was Better off Before the Operation in Flowers for Algernon Ess

In this novel, Flowers for Algernon, written by Daniel Keyes, a man named Charlie Gordon has an operation done to increase his intelligence. He started as a mentally retarded man and slowly became a genius. He seemed to pluck up information like a sponge and he was able to figure out(p) the most complex scientific formulas. The only occupation with the operation is that it does not last for ever and in his remaining beat he tries to figure out why it is not permanent. He provide eventually lose everything he learned and become worse dark than when he started, so Charlie was better off before he had the operation. earlier Charlie had the operation preformed on him, he had friends at the bakery he worked at. They were not really his friends because they always made jokes about Charlie, but he was not smart enough to realize it. As he gets smarter he loses his friends because they think he is just trying to act smart.?This intelligence has driven a wedge between me and all the pe ople I knew and loved, driven me out of the bakery. Now, I?m more alone than ever before.? (75). This quote expla...