In Philip Roth’s Everyman he states, “There’s no remaking reality…Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.” What he was trying to say was that sometimes reality is uncontrollable. When we try to alter our realities, we construct these other realities that harm our perceptions. The only way to deal with a reality is to FACE it. People go their whole lives struggling with this, but never have the courage to face it. Like in Pablo Neruda’s “We Are Many”, he is also having trouble with dealing and accepting his own reality. He does not feel ready or even apt. He wants to be himself, but his fear is getting in the way. Because he wants to be an amplified version of himself, he can never win. He will never be able to accept his reality by constructing these new ones.
The Nature of Reality 