Question

Which excerpt from "flowers for algenon" shows that charlie starts to view himself differently as he becomes smarter?

Answer 1

I'd hidden the picture of the old Charlie Gordon from myself because  now that I was intelligent it was something that had to be pushed out of my mind. But today in looking at that boy, for the first time I saw what I had been.  I was just like him!  Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can  see that unknowingly I joined with them in laughing at myself. That hurts  most of all.  I have often reread my progress reports and seen the illiteracy, the  childish naivete, the mind of low intelligence peering from a dark room,  through the keyhole, at the dazzling light outside. I see that even in my  dullness I knew that I was inferior, and that other people had something  I lacked - something denied me. In my mental blindness, I thought that it  was somehow connected with the ability to read and write, and I was  sure that if I could get those skills I would automatically have intelligence  too.