Jim Hall creates a near perfect metaphor concerning most people’s fears regarding the lack of power they have to change their lives, to become someone different, something new. Spiderman believes that once he recreates and changes himself all the boredom of the life he has now will simply disappear. This is false he will soon grow tired of racing in circles all day and he will then need to once again recreate himself.
It is nearly impossible for a person in modern society to wake up one morning and just reinvent themselves. Society stresses normativity, outsiders and people who are drastically different or who burn their suits a lot are seen to be less productive, less successful than those who stay in the same suit their whole lives. Spiderman forgets that who we are is not determined by the inability to burn our suit but the scratches and stains on said suit. These scratches and stains define our personal experience; to burn these scratches to recreate our lives we would simply erase part of ourselves that would forever be forgotten. The boredom of life is something that can be easily over come. Although he can never stop being a crime fighting super hero he can in fact change how, when, and where he responds to the commissioner’s calls.
Although I would say the act of burning your suit is bad in all cases is it necessary in some. After a great disaster, or a uncontrollable change in someone’s life you are able in my mind to change yourself for the better. You can change your suit only if the matching suit that your partner wears is also burned. The act of burning our own suit is only advisable when your current suit is torn and you must fill the void. A person’s suit is part of themselves and it is unadvisable to quickly change their suits based purely on boredom with their lives.
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