I interpreted the quote, “developed a picture of human existence that rendered it short and brutish or sad and aimless or long and quiet…. When, years later, I was introduced to humanistic psychologists…, with their visions of self actualization…., it all sounded like a glorious fairy tale, a magical account of a world full of possibility, full of hope and empowerment. Sinbad and Cinderella couldn’t have been more fanciful” (p. 18) as a way that Rose’s wants his life to be. His life has been revolving around violence and drugs because of the amount of money he had and where he lives. When he moved his family to Los Angeles he expected his life to be like cinderalla at the ball when really it was her life before cleaning floors, poor, and trying i live off the little rations he had. This quote explains that because it shows that h4 pected one thing but he got the other. He uses the word fanciful to show the dream that he was having thinking his life could or would be more than what he has.