Affect Finder of The Circle

Through the first half of The Circle by Dave Eggers, one of the stronger emotions I feel is incapacitation. It is the feeling of losing power or wanting to help but not being able to do anything . I empathize with Mae in the context of her father and what it is like to have a family member that is not able to take care of themselves due to disease. There is this constant feeling of needing to be at their side and help them whenever needed but sometimes there is just nothing that can be done. My grandmother lived with alzheimer’s for many years and I watched as she slowly started to forget…