Election

this is essentiall an essay about how we ruin our own lives. It's quite funny, but still very unsettling, watching the characters fall victim to their mistakes. the only character to avoid this fate is Paul, who doesn't actually make the mistakes. He's just sort of there, with the world swirling around him. He realizes that his life is, in the scheme of things, pretty good and takes things as they come. Mainly, though, this is about Jim and how in spite of watching his friend ruin his life through an affair with Tracy, goes on to make the same mistake with (the irony) his friend's wife and uses the same excuses. He loves his job, has a pretty good life, but hasn't learned how to communicate with the people around him. When he's confronted with a challenge he reacts rashly, usually trying to find an immediate solution without thinking of the consiquences. Tracy's life is a sort of parody of Jim's. Where Jim's good intentions earn him failure after failure and ultimately a total meltdown of his life, Tracy's self-serving and megalomaniacle intentions earn her success and prestige. Still, at the end of the affair, neither have much of their dignity in tact, only Jim realizes it and Tracy doesn't.

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