is an unhappy soul in John Gardner's book "", because he feels useless in society and doesn't want to accept his given role. Throughout this whole book feels he has no friend in the outside word and no one to except him besides his own mother. He doesn't want to except his role in society which is to be the Great Destroyer. Man creates a huge problem in Grendel's life and has had a major effect on the way he lives with man. Grendel is unhappy in many ways. He wants to be accepted by man but never knew why he was always shunned out of th ....