I think Charly's experience was mostly negative because he doen't ever look like he's happy except for when he is with Mrs. Kinnian, he actually ends up the way he was before the operation, and he has a horrible time when he starts to go back to the way he used to be. Charly didn't want to end up the way that he used to be, but that's what happened. That wasn't fair I think. He was finally getting what he wanted, and it slowly going away from him. He was just so smart, then he started going downhill from there. He starts to not really want to be around the only person he really cared about, Mrs. Kinnian. He starts to just slowly become the same way he was. He sees his old self and that just starts to depress him even more. Then he tries to figure out a way to stay smart, and then when he finds out there is no way to change what is happening to him, he just stops. He just finally accepts what's happening to him, a little bit. It was pretty much the whole time a negative experience to me. I bet it was for him too.