Who Am This Time?

This story is probably one of my favorite from this book thus far. I was really interested in the characters especially Harry and Helen. For Harry, it's like he has no personality and must be told how to act and what to say by the scripts of the plays that he is in. This reminded me of some people that I know who don't seem to be able to think for themselves. They simply follow the 'script' given to them by society. They never say anything offensive, yet they never say or do anything real. These types of people just seem to float through life, slipping through the shadows stuck in a world that only appears to exist. The other character in this story that really caught my attention was Helen. Helen was a character that had never experienced love before. She was so dry and fake. It was almost like, if she is never going to let herself experience love then what's the point of even being there. At one point in the story Helen was compared to a machine, and I feel that more and more people are starting to become just like Helen. They simply go through life on autopilot and don't even feel any extreme emotions. Sure Helen wasn't sad, but she was numb. This is like the idea of whether you'd like to live life like a cockroach, long and boring, or if you'd like to live life like a firefly, short but exciting?