English 1A Quiz #6 for Fall Semester 2012: "The Overcoat" and the Chimera

A wise man once said, having a chimera will kill you, but not having a chimera will also kill you.

Akaky had a chimera, his obsession, the overcoat, which both transformed him for the better and for the worse. We all have our own personal chimera.

In 2 pages, write about yours, a chimera that pushed you to your limits and made you descend into an obsession in which you lost your sense of proportion, your perspective, and experienced both the welcome transformation and inevitable mind-crushing disappointment rendered by your chimera.