The Second tree from the Corner – By: E.B White

" Sometimes some people have the desire to live only" This story starts in a Psychiatrist’s office when the psychiatrist asks a question to Mr Trexler about whether or not he gets any bizarre thoughts. Trexler took some time to answer that question because he did not like to share any thoughts with the psychiatrist, but finally he said no. After a twenty minute session the doctor told Trexler that he was only scared and that there was no other problem with him. The doctor figured this out because for every question he asked him, Trexler would move away from the psychiatrist’s desk. That day Trexler left his office but returned every day of the week for another session, which gave him some time to get used to the psychiatrist.

The final session of the week finally had come. In this session, the psychiatrist asked Trexler about what did he want or achieve in life. Trexler did not know what he wanted in life so he started asking the same question to the psychiatrist. This was Trexler’s habit of becoming the person that he knows. For example he knows the barber at the barbershop, and sometimes he would try to become the barber and start cutting his hair. Now he was trying to become the psychiatrist and make the psychiatrist his patient. The psychiatrist answered the question anyway by saying that wanted money so that he could do the things that he wanted to do. Trexler got angry and said that if he's the one asking the question to the psychiatrist then for why is he paying the money to the psychiatrist. He left the office and on the way home he was thinking what he actually wanted in life.

On the way home, he got the dizziness symptoms and was standing by a tree in the park. While looking at other trees he said that he wanted the second tree from the corner. When he got on the bus he thought about the bizarre thought that he just had in the park .........