Why Martin, why?

Martin Eden is one of the most influential characters in the World Literature. I will put all about this character aside except that why he committed suicide? A person who is doing all his best, even more than his best in order to achieve his goals. A person is bearing all the rigid conditions of life. A person is developing his mind and broads his outlook. A person who begins to collect the fruit of his all sufferings. A person is getting known. A person who is famous now. And what? He commits suicide!!!

The thing that I deadly want to know is WHY? If Martin was a live person and if I came across to him in the hospital after several minutes of his suicide, I would ask the real reason, not that the world is not for him or other philosophical staffs like that.

I would ask him why then you went out off your skin and faced those shitty conditions and all those rejections, just why? I cannot understand why a person who survived bad days and has just come to the position he was longing for so long, commits suicide. If his days were not getting better and he was getting rejections on and on, then OK, I can understand the suicide as a desperate conclusion of his efforts, but why to do this if you have what you wanted to have.  

Now as I mentioned Martin, let's see where else we can meet him :)

1. Marten Eden is mentioned in "It's fine by me" by Per Peterson, Norwegian author. The little hero of this novel Audun is a boy who refuses to attend school thinking that there should be another life outside it. So, he delivers newspapers and talks much about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway. And during one of his speeches he says that Martin Eden inspired him to be a writer.

2. In 1979 in Italy 5 episode mini Martin Eden TV-series were released. On IMDB only 19 person voted for it, so I wonder if any one in Italy has not seen it?

3. In Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pnin (1957), the main character Timofey Pnin is a russian emmigrant living and teaching in an American college. When visiting a bookstore he asks for Martin Eden in a bookstore describing it as "a celebrated work by the celebrated American writer Jack London", but nobody has heard of it, and they only have a copy of The Son of the Wolf. And Pnin replies in advance "Strange! The vicissitudes of celebrity! In Russia, I remember, everybody—little children, full-grown people, doctors, advocates—everybody read and re-read him."

4. Our next option is an indie rock band The Twilight Singers whose 1st track in the album Blackberry Belle is named after Martin Eden :)

5. Next movie is Once upon a time in America (1984) with Robert de Niro in the role of David "Noodles" Aaronson is reading Martin Eden.

6. And last one is the movie Queen to Play where Kroger gives Helene a copy of Martin Eden.