It makes the story a tragedy of the classical Greek kind. Hirshfield, renowned as a poet and teacher, is the author of numerous award-winning books of poetry, including The October Palace and The Lives of the Heart . She is widely considered one of our country's greatest living poets. But what the movie is saying is that, without great ambition, no one will become a great artist. But it doesn't mean it may not be true.
Life strips everybody of all their accomplishments, some sooner than others.
But nobody dies with their accomplishments. You simply die with your heart. I think that's a cultural stereotype, and it's unfortunate. It says that the artist is a person who will never be satisfied, that the artist is always self-centered. The artist will suffer .