Wasted

Title: Wasted
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 482 | Pages: 2.1 (approximately 235 words/page)

Wasted

Potential. It’s a word that’s thrown around when people think you can do something great, be it in academics, the arts, or sports. Ex-Basketball Player, by John Updike, is a poem about a man named Flick Webb whose wasted potential has led him to a dismal, melancholy life. The narrator is a former fan that portrays Flick as a daydreamer, fantasizing about his glory days. The first stanza sets the present setting. Flick …showed first 75 words of 482 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 482 total…short, simple phrases, indicating a bland, boring life. Potential. Many people have it; many people let it go to waste. The narrator obviously thought that Flick Webb was destined for great things, but Mr. Webb failed to realize his potential and now is fated to live out the rest of his days imagining that he’s the star, even tough now he’s just a has-been, no, wait, scratch that, more like a never was.

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