Comparing Gray's Anatomy And Deconstructing Harry

Authors depict their feelings through their writing. In both Gray’s Anatomy and Deconstructing Harry the two main characters are both authors experiencing a dilemma and they both try to avoid the most obvious course of action. Their past experiences influence their actions and are the cause of their current dilemmas. Past experiences affect our decisions in our future but these experiences do not necessarily cause us to make the right decisions.
In Gray’s Anatomy by Spalding Gray, he himself plays all the characters while narrating his own experiences with a Macular Pucker that had developed in his left eye. Throughout the movie he explains his fear of surgery and the lengths to which he went to avoid the surgery. His fear of possible blindness

These scenes are always played when Harry comes into contact with a person he has used as a basis for his writing. The transition between the real and fictional world are done suddenly and often it is hard to tell which reality the scene is taking place. These scenes are often the scenes which the characters are offended by. The scenes effectively show us Harries imagination and how much influence the people around him have influenced his writing. The scenes have some type of absurdity or present the character in an exaggerated manner. One scene that shows this is the first scene of the movie. When one starts watching Deconstructing Harry he sees a woman exiting a cab and heading towards a house. Then the movie shows a scene from one of the book Harry has written. The transition of the scenes makes the viewer assume that Harry is actually one of the characters he has created. The viewer later learns that this scene is based off of his past experiences with his wife’s sister. These transitions are so sudden to show the importance of the characters Harry has created and how they influence his