There’s no debate on the growth Siddhartha experienced in the story. He grew up to be a responsible, wise, and venerable old man who even had a family of his own. Though, before he could have such a persona for one to look up to, he had to battle and defeat the internal conflicts he’s had since the beginning, which the author expresses through sophisticated language and impressively vivid imagery, as while as a bold example of irony.
A quote from a passage belonging to an earlier chapter in the story uses detailed imagery and description to express Siddhartha’s early internal conflicts: “Walking the rosy paths of the fig tree garden, sitting in the bluish shade of the grove of contemplation, washing his limbs daily in the bath of repentance, sacrificing in the dim shade of the mango forest, his gestures of perfect decency, everyone's love and joy, he still lacked all joy in his heart.” It’s shown in the previous line that Siddhartha, bored of this predictable routine has lost all interest in certain, if…show more content… Among all his riches, perks, and pleasures, whether materialistic or not, did not include compassion, true and honest loyalty, general friendship, love, or any other basic qualities to make one feel genuinely happy or appreciated, as expressed in this line: “Just slowly, among his growing riches, Siddhartha had assumed something of the childlike people's ways for himself, something of their childlikeness and of their fearfulness. And yet, he envied them, envied them just the more, the more similar he became to them. He envied them for the one thing that was missing from him and that they had, the importance they were able to attach to their lives, the amount of passion in their joys and fears, the fearful but sweet happiness of being constantly in love.” He left a place of love, where he felt horrible, to a place with no love to feel even worse along the
