Character Profiles Professor John Keating: Professor John Keating is a thoughtful, kind, humorous teacher and dreamer. He is an inspiring man who has many unorthodox teaching methods. Keating inspires his students to "suck the marrow out of life" and "seize the day". his students admire his different way of teaching and the way he made them think for themselves. As a former student Mr. Keating didn't like the way the school was so conservative and …showed first 75 words of 1092 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1092 total…his father and takes part in the play. Neil is then crushed because his father wont let listen to what he has to say let alone let him act. Neil then ends his life in a tragic and emotional scene, Neal finds that he doesn't know how to cope with a life that is empty and he takes his own life. This shows that Neil is a coward and was extremely confused in his life.