An Outsider In Society

Looking in through a window at someone else living their life. That is what it feels like to be an outsider in society. People are excluded and forced to observe others while they watch, like a benched player on the sidelines of a game. The experience of being an outsider is universal but not permanent, as shown in The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield, By Any Other Name by Santha Rama Rau and Revenge of the Geeks by Alexandra Robbins.
In The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield, the author uses the story to show that the experience of being an outsider is universal. Mansfield sets the scene of the story by introducing the dollhouse that belongs to two rich girls, the Burnells. When they go to school the next day to brag about their dollhouse,
This may be true in some cases, but in the argument Revenge of the Geeks by Alexandra Robbins, she explains that outsiders have an advantage later in life compared to those that fit in during adolescence. She also describes how outsiders use their characteristics that marginalized them to help society, writing, “Geeks profit from their technological knowhow. Emos benefit from being empathetic and unafraid to display emotion. Skaters, punks and others who pursue their arts with fervor benefit from the creativity they've honed. Gamers have learned both problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate through collective intelligence...there would be no progress — cures for diseases, ways to harness new energy sources — without people who are different” (p. 226). The evidence she gathered shows that the experience of being an outsider is not an eternal burden, but the one thing that creates innovation and advances the world. The outsiders that grow up to enrich society gain confidence and leave the world of being an outcast behind. Robbins uses examples of celebrities to strengthen her argument, saying, “Taylor Swift's classmates left the lunch table as soon as she sat down because they disdained her taste for country music. Last year, the Grammy winner was the nation's top-selling recording artist” (p. 225). In this example, Taylor Swift disregarded what people thought of her to be the person she wanted. Her life as an outsider did not last forever, just like many others. By leaving the outsider behind, people become who they want, not what society views them as. Being an outcast is not a permanent state of living and those who were left out in early life become those who stand out in