Blog#6:Quarter 4: Tender Bar

In the story, although Moehringer develops a personality he likes and he talks positively of the men at the bar, it seems like the men were corrupting him and turn us into hating him too. At the beginning of the story, I thought that J.R. was pretty innocent, had ambitions, but was slowly being corrupted by the men at the bar that he had called his saviors. At one point, his uncle, one of the men at the bar, and the one who introduced him, took him to the bar where he would "mature." In my opinion, this lead to a downward paths in his life. For example, when his mom had been in the hospital because of a car accident, he didn't try to do anything. Instead, he decided to call up a girl he had met at a party by the name of Lana. At the point where his mom is in trouble, he gave her up. Even though she was being taken cared of, the extra comfort by him would've helped her. However, on that day, he took out Lana, to try and lose his virginity because he believed that it was what would transform him into a man. These were the ideas that the men at the bar had taught him and these ideas corrupted him, and as noted before by me, would ruin his life because as he adopted these new ideas, he had lost the ambitions that he had developed from before.