Experiment Gone Wrong in Flowers for AlgernonAn experiment was performed on a mentally retarded person in an attempt to increase their intelligence. The experiment worked, but after months he returned to the state he was in initially. In the book Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, this intelligence operation was carried out and the patient was Charlie Gordon. After the operation, Charlie was very bright, but he suffered from loneliness and psychological distress. Charlie was emotionally distraught because of his childhood flashbacks and because his intelligence was growing faster than his emotional intelligence. After his surgery, he slowly started having flashbacks of different parts of his childhood. In many of them, his mother would walk away and start saying, "...He's normal! He's normal! He'll grow up like the others. Better than the others." Charlie dreamed of his mother's shame. His mother always thought that her son was normal, that he would grow up and become someone. Charlie's sister also ignored him. For her, Charlie was stupid and couldn't do anything. Charlie dreamed of his sister yelling at him and making fun of him. He also had memories of the night his parents took him to the Warren Home. He was terrified and his father never answered his questions. Charlie remembered his childhood and through his memories, he felt guilty for hurting his family. After the operation, at the bakery, he had friends. Friends who would talk to him and care about him. Charlie then realized that he had no friends but simply knew people who made fun of him. The bakery employees loved him simply because they could blame Charlie for their mistakes. Then they couldn't do that after the surgery, so they all turned on Charlie. Charlie also discovered Nemur and Strauss, the men who carried out the operation. He realized that they were not professionals, but two men shooting in the dark. Charlie felt like a disposable lab specimen. So Charlie had lost his friends and now knew he was just a lab rat. He began to regress and considered suicide to end his turbulent life. He became irritable and nervous around people at the university. He would quickly get angry with people and yell at them. People stayed away from him because he was going crazy and he was unpredictable..