Perfume: Story of a murderer, a novel written by Patrick Suskind tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a character who seems to have come into the world to face many challenges of rejection by a society that has not been able to manage "different" very well. The novel is set in France. Since his birth, Grenouille was automatically treated unusually and rejected due to an abnormal condition, he actually had no body odor and people seem to take it as a terrible offense. He developed such hatred towards people because of their mistreatment, judgment and social alienation. His hatred for humanity was so intense that he undertook a seven-year journey to the Massif Central to distance himself from society, placing himself in isolation; who ended up having fun. Despite not having a scent of his own, Grenouille develops a strong sensitivity to odors and an enormous ability to create scents, which ultimately becomes the cause of his rise and fall in society, driving him to carry out gruesome acts driven by his out of control. desire to be “someone” in society. Grenouille's character was so shaped by the mistreatment and rejection of people that I consider him an example of a socially isolated individual. According to the Dictionary of Psychology, “social isolation is the voluntary or involuntary absence of contact with others.” In other words, the individual does not have frequent interactions with others. In the novel, there are a couple of key moments and characters that can be considered in some way as having impacted Grenouille's life in a positive or negative way. The interactions with these characters illustrate the reasons why Grenouille fell into social isolation. After his birth, and the lynching of his mother...... middle of paper ......p of the Massif Central is what leads him to isolation. He didn't do it for self-punishment or to seek wisdom in any way. He had retired entirely for his own personal pleasure. No longer distracted by anything in the world, he lied in her presence and found it pleasant. As readers, we would think that he would have his "happy ending" in finding himself or finding someone or something to fill his void without selfish motives. His ending showed that there was nothing that was or could fill the void caused mostly by the mistreatment of others and him allowing them to do so. He accepted the fact that being himself wasn't enough for him or others, so he had no purpose in this world. Finding his happiness in others would never happen, no matter how good and true his intentions were. Grenouille never accepted himself, so why should anyone else??