{"id":29738,"date":"2021-03-26T13:53:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T17:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=29738"},"modified":"2021-04-01T21:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T01:28:34","slug":"zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who are the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance\/\">Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/a><\/em> characters? How do they each influence the stories and philsophies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several important <em>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/em> characters. 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In addition to the narrator and his son, there are also several <em>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/em> characters they meet on their journey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the <em>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/em> characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robert Pirsig<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortform note: The first track of the book, told in the present tense, follows an unnamed narrator (whom Shortform, because of the numerous parallels between the narrator and the real-life <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/robert-pirsig\/\">Robert Pirsig<\/a>, has chosen to call \u201cPirsig\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the book begins, Pirsig and Chris have just left Minneapolis on motorcycles. They are accompanied by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/john-and-sylvia-sutherland\/\">John and Sylvia Sutherland<\/a>, friends of Pirsig, who are riding with the Pirsigs as far as Bozeman, Montana. Whereas Pirsig is an editor of technical manuals, John is a drummer, and their differing attitudes toward motorcycle maintenance provide the impetus for Pirsig\u2019s early <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/chautauqua-meaning\/\">Chautauquas<\/a> on technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the riders make their way west, the Pirsigs\u2019 backstory is slowly revealed. The key plot points are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Some years before the ride, Pirsig suffered a mental breakdown and was institutionalized. He was treated with electroshock therapy, which caused him to forget who he was before the treatment. Through occasional fragments of memory and his own research, he\u2019s been able to get a sense of the person he was before. He calls this person Phaedrus.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chris<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The book opens in the height of summer with Pirsig on his motorcycle, his son, Chris, seated behind him. They\u2019re riding from Minneapolis to Montana alongside Pirsig\u2019s friends, John and Sylvia Sutherland; when we join the travelers, they\u2019re on a two-lane road somewhere in western Minnesota. Pirsig catches sight of a red-winged blackbird taking flight and points it out enthusiastically to Chris, but Chris, who\u2019s 11, isn\u2019t very impressed. Pirsig theorizes that the reason he\u2019s so taken with the surroundings is because they\u2019re bound up with his memories, memories Chris doesn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional <em>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/em> Characters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Two more <em>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/em> characters are John and Sylvia Sutherland and the DeWeeses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John and Sylvia Sutherland<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>John Sutherland is Pirsig\u2019s prime example of a romantic thinker. Sutherland refuses to learn how to maintain his motorcycle because it\u2019s \u201csquare\u201d\u2014it smacks of cold, procedural knowledge that runs counter to the \u201cgrooviness\u201d and spontaneous creativity he prizes. Pirsig, meanwhile, a self-anointed classical thinker, relishes knowing how his motorcycle functions and being able to repair it if something goes wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a faucet begins dripping at the Sutherlands\u2019 house, John makes a cursory stab at fixing it, then just lets it drip. On a day when Pirsig is over, Sylvia, who speaks softly, is trying to make herself heard over the dripping when her kids enter noisily. She blows up at the kids for interrupting her but doesn\u2019t acknowledge that her anger was primed by the dripping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sutherlands often talk about how there\u2019s no escape from \u201cit,\u201d \u201cit all,\u201d \u201cthe whole organized bit,\u201d and \u201cthe system.\u201d Pirsig realizes that the Sutherlands are referring to a kind of dark force that gives rise to, and is epitomized by, technology. To the Sutherlands, this force is monstrous and unintelligible\u2014inhuman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the Sutherlands aren\u2019t alone in resisting technology\u2014at the time <em>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance <\/em>was being written, an anti-technological movement, embodied by so-called \u201cbeatniks\u201d and \u201chippies,\u201d was well established. 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His fondness stemmed from the fact that DeWeese continuously surprised Phaedrus: When Phaedrus expected one reaction from DeWeese, DeWeese would often produce the exact <em>opposite <\/em>reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeWeese\u2019s curious responses led Phaedrus to believe DeWeese possessed some deep knowledge that could help Phaedrus. And DeWeese, Phaedrus later discovered, felt a similar curiosity about <em>him<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance characters? How do they each influence the stories and philsophies? There are several important Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance characters. In addition to Pirsig and his son, there are other people they connect with along their journey. 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