What are the main themes and messages Stoner wants to convey?

>>9850359
Men are disgusting
>raping your daughter

>>9850359
Life is pointless.

>>9850359

People are bigoted against cripples! Didn't you see how hard Stoner was on that poor young Walker?

>>9850402
this >>9850402 but unironically
Stoner tries to fight the pointlessness, holding the paper he wrote (the only tangible accomplishment he cared about) and saying that the brief summary of his life as a person dancing through the field wasn't fair, but it didn't really matter in the end.
At best you can comfort yourself with your achievements

>>9850479
>At best you can comfort yourself with your achievements

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

>>9850359
dude weed lmao

>>9850406
That made me so mad. Fuck those two angsty cripples

What was the point of making the crippled character crippled?

>>9853373
I think it was a reference to greek mythology, in which the virtuous were portrayed as beautiful/perfect and the wicked as ugly/deformed.

Now, Stoner was wicked as well, and it reflected in his physicality. The stoop of his shoulders, sunken eyes, etc.

>>9850359
Its a celebration of the ordinary life and life generally.
He faced adversity in his career and domestic life and he dealt with it the only way he knew he could.
For example, when you look at Stoner's handling of Lomax and the collegiate theatricals, you have to understand that Stoner started from nothing. He originally was a quiet farm kid that was impersonal and not at all self-reflective. He grew later to be independent and gradually take what he wanted, although by the end I would hardly characterize him as an assertive personality.
This is true if we look at his first date with Edith and finally his proposal to her - propelled by a naive belief that he could help her from whatever she was pleading for. Stoner didn't seem like the most social guy and along with his youth was bound to miss the redflags and misinterpret Edith's reason for marriage.
We also see it in his stand for principle when dealing with the cripple fraud and standing up to Lomax several times in the book. Unbeknownst to him that it would severally impact his career and make his life miserable in the process.
His mistakes are apart of his growth from naivete and unworldliness to wisdom and from uncertainty to resolution.
By the end, he is content with his life. He can't regret anything because to do so would be ignoring the hindsight that comes with experience.

>>9850359
>And what did you expect?