Several reasons come to mind as to why Tuck might not like the idea of living forever in Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. Many of us think that the idea of immortality is intriguing, but if we stopped and really thought about it, we just might change our minds. Tuck already has figured out some of those things. If he falls in love, for example, and his love ages naturally and someday dies, he will watch all this as his young self. He watches people come and go throughout time.
He and his family also have to be fairly constantly on the move to avoid being "found out." If they stay in one place too long, people are going to begin to notice that they never age. How hard it must be for Tuck to feel he can never get too comfortable anywhere, to never be able to get to close to anyone lest they discover his "secret." At one point in the book, the author writes,
"For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist (Babbitt).
While the world changes around him, Tuck will remain unchanged. That would have to be difficult to accept.
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