E.A. Robinson's "Miniver Cheevy"

In "Miniver Cheevy" by E.A. Robinson's we encounter a character that believes that he is born in the wrong time period. He is not very content with the present and mourns for the past. Miniver is constantly romanticizing about the past wishing he lived in it. Even from his start he still felt he would rather have not been born then living in what he felt was the wrong time period. "He wept that he was ever born" (Robinson 3).  This romantic sensibility leads him to always mourning about the past and ends up drinking. Even though he lives in the present and does not like it, he still makes no effort to live in his fantasy world. But instead sits around and grieves about the past. E.A Robinson is presenting us with a character like this to show us what happen when you don't try to make you fantasy's come true. Miniver never tried to make his present more like the past and instead just settled for less. 
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