Habits Of The Heart Analysis

In the chapter one of the book, Habits of the Heart, the writer demonstrated four characters and presented different American voices in a common tradition. The key theme of these tradition are questions about how Americans to think about the nature of success, the meaning of freedom and the requirements of justice in the modern life? Within these four individual stories of Brian, Joe, Margaret, and Wayne, Margaret’s character is most like me. Margaret was raised in a stable middle-class family and she valued the individuals should stick rigidly to your own standard and mind your own business. To Margaret, the individual fulfillment is much more important than the attachment to community. Margaret concerns more about the realities of human
Her tolerated personality actually brings her a variety of friendship, experiencing the exposure of different people’s thoughts, ideas and problems is a great way to fulfill her interest as a therapist and open up new ideas for her. She is more likely to accept the way people they are instead of changing them to the way she likes. As a therapist, she is not solving people’s problems but to help them achieve greater self-understanding of themselves to deal with the reality, in other words, making them think more positively. I am actually kind of energetic girl, and always with a positive life attitude. My optimistic personality makes it easier for me to get along with different kinds of people and mostly they are willing to share their personal story with me. By getting to know the variety of other’s stories, I grow a lot myself. For example, when a friend she calls me right after quarreling with her boyfriend and complaining about all the flaws of him. Every time I talk with her for a while, I would totally rethink what would I do if I were her to avoid the cause of such argument and build up a better