33 seen to be curious and want to know by joining one activity in the mental hospital
which is invited by Zedka. Do you want to watch? Insisted Zedka. She was going to step outside the
routine, thought Veronika. She was going to discover new things, when she didn’t need to learn anything more---all she needed was patience. But her curiosity for
the better of her and she nodded. 47 The quotation above moreover consolidates Veronika as a curious person.
By letting her to join the activity, she will discover new thing she hasn’t got before.
I want to leave here so that I can die outside. I need to visit Ljubljana castle. Its always been there, and I’ve even never had the curiosity to go and see it
at close range. I need to talk to the woman who sells chestnut in winter and flower in the spring…..I want to find out what extreme cold feels like, I , who was
always so well wrapped up, so afraid of catching a cold. 139
She is told by the doctor that her death is about to come. She asks the doctor’s permission to go outside. Her curiosity to find out situation outside
Villete puts her as a curios person.
e. Attentive
Attentive refers to giving close attention to somebodysomething 66. Veronika is found to be an attentive person. It can be seen in from below
quotation as follows. “ while she was waiting for death, Veronika started reading about computer science, a subject in which she was not the least bit interested, but
then that was in keeping with that she had done all her life, always looking for the easy option, for whatever was nearest at hand. Like the magazine for example
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34 2.” The quotation implies that Veronika tries to read magazine and put attention
to it even she doesn’t really like about computer science. She had overcome her minor defects only to be defeated by matters of
fundamental importance. She had managed to appear utterly independent when she was, in fact, desperately in need of company. … She gave all her friends the
impression that she was a woman to be envied, and she expended most of her energy in trying to behave in accordance with the image she had created of
herself. Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person
who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they
surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn’t care about anything. When someone more open to life
appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous. In the another occasion she is seen to put attention
about all that she have done.“She might have impressed a lot of people with her strength and determination, but where had it left her? In the void. Utterly alone. In
Villete. In the anteroom of death” 67.
2. After Social Learning a. Brave
