Reflective Statement on Perfume and Written AssignmentReflective StatementIn Perfume, viewing Jean-Baptiste Grenouille as a parasite and the rest of the characters as his hosts help express the novel and its purpose. "When Giuseppe Baldini's house collapsed, Grenouille was already on the road to Orléans." (Suskind, 115) This defines Grenouille's role. Because Grenouille is depicted as a tick, everyone Grenouille leaves behind dies. During the seminar, we were able to see that Grenouille by Patrick Suskind expresses himself as a stranger to society, a tick and a murderer. To help delineate the environment of Perfume and many valuable traits of French culture, “At the time of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench scarcely conceivable to us modern men and women. » (Suskind, 3) Patrick Suskind knows a lot about France in the slums of the 18th century. Grenouille cannot form a deep relationship with any of the other characters in the novel. He doesn't care about their looks, intelligence, or personality, even if he is obsessed with smell. Because of this obsession, he picks up the scents of others while killing them. Grenouille prefers to be alone and refrain from interacting with people. The only real reason Grenouille interacts with others is so he can pursue his desire for smells. Frog is unconsciously hated and feared because he has no smell. He is artificially accepted as part of society when he creates his human scent. “But now, in the streets of Montpellier, Grenouille felt and saw with his own eyes --- and every time he saw him again, a powerful feeling of pride. overwhelmed him --- that he had an effect on people. (Suskind, 152) Frog notes after producing the fl...... middle of paper ...... is eaten like meat or even an animal. This is how Grenouille and the people around him are easily controlled by their own senses, which represents imagery. Throughout the duration of the novel's actions, Grenouille goes through his main moment of disgust that he feels towards people. As he desires to be delivered from the despair that he suffers from the unfortunate curse of having no smell and therefore no soul, Monsieur Richis approaches him as if he was going to kill him. Grenouille is really impatient while waiting for the father of the massacred Laure to stab him in the chest. To his surprise, Richis falls into his arms and grabs him. Works Cited Süskind, Patrick. Perfume: The story of a murderer. New York: Pocket Books, 1991. Print.